Re: C99 features

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman at pathwayconnect dot com>]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm looking for information
about C99 itself. The standard from ANSI is probably not what I need
(reams and reams of standard-speak). I'd just like a summary of each
feature added: a couple sentences and a code fragment would be perfect.
Do you know of such a resource?

Thanks,
Shaun


On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 10:35, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > Is there a short paragraph summary of each of the features listed in:
> > 	http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/c99status.html
> > 
> > I don't have access to the standard, but I'd sure like to know a little
> > more about each of these.
> 
> Do you want to know more about C99 (as in "What does 'complex support' 
> mean?"), or are you wanting to know more detail about GCC's 
> implementation of C99 (as in "How is compelx support broken in GCC?").
> 
> The ISO/ANSI C99 Standard can be purchased for US$33 from the ANSI 
> bookstore, in PDF format.
> 
> http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=ISO%2FIEC+9899%3A1999
> 
> The GCC C99 status page is a tad confusing. For example, "complex (and 
> imaginary) support in <complex.h>" is "Broken", but it's not listed as a 
> "library issue." Given that C99's complex.h is part of glibc, not gcc, 
> I'm assuming this is an oversight in the status, or perhaps that the 
> header can not be implemented base don the compiler's current state. The 
> same problem exists with "extended integer types in <stdint.h>".