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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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