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- From: <jsh@usenix.org>
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- An Update on UNIX* and C Standards Activities
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- March 1990
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- USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
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- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Report Editor
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- ANSI X3J11: C Programming Language Update
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- Doug Gwyn <gwyn@brl.MIL> reports on the state of ANSI C:
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- There is now a C standard
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- After the one appeal of CBEMA X3's approval of the proposed ANSI C
- standard was eventually voluntarily withdrawn by the appellant, the
- ANSI Board of Standards Review approved the proposed standard on
- December 14, 1989. (CBEMA is the Computer and Business Equipment
- Manufacturers' Association, the organization that sponsors X3.)
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- No appeals were received by ANSI within the time allotted, so there is
- now an official American National Standard for Programming Language C:
- ANS X3.159-1989. The technical content of the ANS is identical to
- that of the December 1988 X3J11 draft.
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- The X3J11 technical committee will enter an "interpretations" mode at
- the March 1990 meeting in New York City. During this phase, the
- committee will be considering requests for clarification and
- interpretation of the standard. It is anticipated that Technical
- Information Bulletins will be issued from time to time when it is felt
- that clarification of the intent of the standard needs to be
- published. Such bulletins would not technically be considered part of
- the official standard; however, they should provide valuable guidance
- to both C implementors and C programmers.
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- * UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other
- countries.
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- January 1990 Standards Update ANSI X3J11: C Programming Language
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 66
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