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- From: amn@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: ANSI/ISO standard (surprisingly enough!) & extensions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.020102.2965@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 02:01:02 GMT
- Reply-To: amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk
- Organization: University of Brighton, England
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- Sorry if these are FAQs, I haven't noticed a list here, if so please mail me.
-
- Do any bodies, other than the British Standards Institute, perform validation
- of compilers? Which PC (MS-DOS) or Amiga products have passed such validation?
-
- The British Standards Institute charges 168 pounds sterling ($330 US),
- [yes, the price is correct - I checked the price list and by phone], for the
- 234 pages comprising BS ISO/IEC 9899:1990, (half price for members). We have
- to tolerate US books having the '$' scratched out & a pound sign drawn in, but
- this seems bl**dy expensive! Is this, or better still the ANSI version with
- rationale, available at an affordable price?
-
- Beyond my list, what major extensions are documented for ANSI C?
- Objective C - "Objective C" by Pinson & Wiener's book,
- C++ - [IMHO, hardly an extension the contradictions with ANSI C
- appear to be increasing daily]
- Concurrent C - "The Concurrent C Programming Language" by Gehani & Roome,
- 1989, describes a K&R rather than ANSI extension. Omitting
- control for sharing/copying data between processes and
- control of process location on multiple processor systems.
- Has this been updated functionally and/or syntactically
- to ANSI style?
-
- Thanks,
- --
- Anthony Naggs | MAN I say what it occurs to me to say when
- Janet: amn@uk.ac.brighton.vms | I think I hear people say things.
- or xa329@uk.ac.city | More I cannot say.
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