~4Dgifts/toolbox/documents/ANSI-C README
so far, this brand-new-to-v4.1 directory includes files
relevant to the book, "The Annotated ANSI C Standard",
and the text originally published as the ANSI C rationale.
The reason to own "The Annotated ANSI C Standard" is because it has the
text of the ISO C standard. But the book has mistakes, and the file,
AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard, points out the errors. Sometimes it
suggests the correction and sometimes not.
rationale.{ps,latex.tar.Z} is the text that was originally published as
the ANSI C rationale. It contains useful information about the origin,
creation and meaning of the ISO C standard, but was never published as
part of the ISO version.
Newsgroups: sgi.engr.all
Subject: The Annotated ANSI C Standard : book review
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:46:36 GMT
The Annotated ANSI C Standard
American National Standard for Programming Languages-C
ANSI/ISO 9899-1990
by Herbert Schildt
Published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.
is, at $40, the cheapest way to get a copy of the real standard.
It was reviewed by PJ Plauger in the January 1994 C User's journal,
where Plauger points out that page 132 was dropped and page 131
duplicated in its place. But he still recommends it.
Recently Clive Feather posted his detailed technical review of the
book on comp.std.c including every article posted related to the
review (AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard.discussion.txt). Then, after this
net discussion, he revised it slightly (AnnotatedAnnotatedCStandard.txt).
Here is that review in case you missed it in comp.std.c.
It *is* the least expensive way to get the Standard.
If you buy the book, make a copy from a real standard of what should
be on page 132. Print out Clive Feather's review. File both with
the book.
Newsgroups: sgi.engr.all
Subject: Re: The Annotated ANSI C Standard : book review
Date: 29 Mar 1994 19:49:13 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <CnE49o.LL8@sgi.sgi.com>,
>
> The Annotated ANSI C Standard
> American National Standard for Programming Languages-C
> ANSI/ISO 9899-1990
> by Herbert Schildt
> Published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.
>
>is, at $40, the cheapest way to get a copy of the real standard.
...
>If you buy the book, make a copy from a real standard of what
>should be on page 132. Print out Clive Feather's review.
>File both with the book.
You will also want a copy of the rationale: "Rationale for
American National Standard for Information Systems -- Programming
Language -- C" which is printed with the expensive version, but
omitted from the above-mention annotated version.
To quote from the introduction, "This Rationale summarizes the
deliberations of X3J11, the Technical committee charged by ANSI
with devising a standard for the C programming language."
While not part of the standard proper, it contains invaluable
insight into why the committee created the standard the way they
did. It also contains invaluable information on how ANSI/ISO C
differs from e.g. K&R. It's large: 119+ pages.
Available in postscript and latex source, and on various ftp sites.
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