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

A list of new features is available. A further description of the 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.

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.

TR 24731: Extensions to the C Library Part I: Bounds-checking interfaces

WG14 is working on a TR on safer C library functions. This TR is oriented towards modifying existing programs, often by adding an extra parameter with the buffer length. The latest draft is in document N1146. A rationale is in document N1147. This is to become a Technical Report type 2.

C - Project status and milestones

Defect Reports

ISO/IEC 9899 - Revision of the C standard

TR 18037: Embedded C

TR 19769: New character types in C

TR 24731: Extensions to the C Library Part I: Bounds-checking interfaces

TR 24732: Decimal floating point

TR 24747: Mathematical special functions

SC22/WG14 Milestones