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Standards Committee News ISO C Standards
Committee (JTC1 SC22/WG14) (Sydney,
Australia, April 2004). The ISO
C Standards Committee met in Coogee, a small beach town/suburb of Sydney,
March 29 - April 2, 2004. The
weather was great, sunny and breezy, and the water temperature hovered in the
low 70's (F). Along with the
usual work on resolving Defect Reports, progress was made on the development
of Technical Reports (TR) for several extensions to the C Language. The current philosophy of the committee
is to explore new features for possible future standardization by publishing
TRs, thereby giving industry time gain experience and determine which
extensions are worthy of standardization. The extensions, and their progress thus far: -
TR18037,
Extensions to Support Embedded Systems. Has three parts: 1) Fixed-point
arithmetic, 2) Named address spaces /named register storage , 3) I/O hardware
addressing. The TR has been
approved and will be published by ISO. -
TR19769,
Extensions to Support New Character Data Types. Adds support for UTF-16 and
UTF-32 character sets. Approved and will be published by ISO. -
TR24732, Extensions to Support Decimal Floating Point. Adds support for decimal
floating point. This effort is being done in coordination with the ISO C++
Standards Committee. The work
item has been approved by ISO, and the effort is just getting underway. -
Extensions to Support Special Math Functions. Adds support for bessel and
related functions. This effort is also being done in coordination with the
ISO C++ Standards committee. The proposed work item will be submitted to ISO. -
Extensions to Support Library Security Functions. This effort extends existing C library functions, and
provide new ones, designed to create more secure and safer application
programs. The proposed work item will be submitted to ISO. The committee
also approved a second Technical Corrigenda, TC2, consisting of
resolutions/corrections to the C Standard for 40 Defect Reports. TC2 is being forwarded to ISO. The rationale
for the C Standard is freely available. The next meeting of the C Standards committee will be at Microsoft, in Redmond WA, Oct 25-29, 2004. Herb Sutter of Microsoft (also the ISO C++ Convenor) is the contact point: hsutter@microsoft.com. |
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