C - Project status and milestones

Defect Reports

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 is in the process of processing a number of Defect Reports on ISO/IEC 9899, which has produced a Record of Responses (RRs)

ISO/IEC 9899 - Revision of the C standard

WG14 completed the revision of the C standard with ISO/IEC 9899:2011, dubbed C11. A late draft of C11 as of 2011-04-02 is N1570.

WG14 earlier completed a revision of the C standard ISO/IEC 9899 in 1999, published 1999-12-01. The standard is called ISO C99, or more formally ISO/IEC 9899:1999.

A list of new features in C99 is available. A further description of the C99 revision is given in the revision charter. The final state of the work can be found in the WG14 status of C9X contributions.

N897: A draft rationale for the C99 standard is available.

TR 18037: Embedded C

WG14 is working on a TR on Embedded C. The latest draft, approved for publication, is in document N1169.

TS 18661: Floating-point extensions for C

This TS is in five parts. Parts 1 through 4 have been published. The latest draft of part 5 is in document N1968.

TR 19769: New character types in C

WG14 is working on a TR on new character types, including support for UTF-16. The title is: TR 19769 - Extensions for the programming language C to support new character data types. The latest draft, approved for publication, is in document N1040.