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Standards Committee News ISO C++ Standards Committee (JTC1 SC22/WG21) The ISO/IEC C++ Standards Committee met in Kona, Hawaii, Feb 6-10, 2012. The revision to the C++ Standard has been approved by ISO/IEC, and has been published. The revision is now known as C++11. This meeting started with a lengthy discussion of 'what's next' for C++. Herb Sutter, WG21 Convener, gave a presentation on a number of approaches with an emphesis on predictability - standardizing smaller and more predictable chunks of features - and a need to greatly increase the size of the library. There was much discussion also on different methods to advance new work, such as publishing Technical Specifications sooner rather than a new revision to the Standard later. There was weak consensus on publishing a new revision in the 2016-2017 time frame. The remainder of the session was spent in Working Groups (Core, Library, and Evolution). Three new Study Groups were established: Modules, Networking, and File System. There is already an existing Study Group on Concurrency. The next meeting of the C++ Committee will be in Portland, Oregon, October 15-19, 2012.

ISO C Standards Committee (JTC1 SC22/WG14) The ISO/IEC C Standards Committee met in Kona, Hawaii, Feb 13-15, 2012. The new revision to the C Standard has been published, and is now known as C11. C11 should prove to be an easier Standard to conform to than it's predecessor C99. Many of the features required in C99, such as complex, and a number of the newer features in C11, such as Atomics and Threads, are optional for C11 Conformance. Another notable item is that gets() has been deemed unsafe for programming use, and removed from tthe C Standard. The committee further discussed onging work on Technical Specifications for C Secure Coding Rules, support for IEEE 754-2008 Floating Point, and a C language code analyzer for secure coding rules; and resolved a number of Defect Reports The C Committee will next meet in Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2012.

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