Revised ANSI C Standard

John Kwan uunet!hpclbis.cup.hp.com!jkwan
Tue May 19 12:05:09 PDT 1992


>Based in info I received at last week's X3J11 meeting, it is expected that
>the current ISO C std will become the new ANSI C std in about 3 months. The
>impact of this is that we should start thinking seriously about using the
>new section numbers in all std references. I suggest you make the ISO section
>and page the primary reference and optionally, add the (soon to be obsoleted)
>old ANSI reference as well. Sooner or later we are going to have to
>make the change and certainly before we go to a public comment period 'cos
>by then the public will only be able to buy the new std (in ISO format).
>

 I have one question. Will the new document be call "ISO 9899" or "ANSI 9899" ?
 Does this also mean that there will be no ANSI C anymore, just ISO C ??

 John



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