Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards
Date	2021-07-08 00:57 -0700
Organization	None to speak of
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 08/07/2021 05:34, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> writes:
>>> I have managed to find direct links to the official standard and they
>>> are here:
>>>
>>> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1336.pdf>
>>> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf>
>>> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf>
>> 
>> No, you've found links to publicly released drafts of the C standard.
>> 
>> N1124 consists of the C99 standard with the first two Technical
>> Corrigenda merged into it.  It's not particularly useful given the
>> existence of N1256.
>> 
>> N1256 consists of the C99 standard with the three Technical Corrigenda
>> merged into it.  It's arguably more useful than the C99 standard itself
>> (which costs money) -- but of course the C99 standard itself is
>> officially obsolete.
>> 
>> N1336 is a draft of C201x (later called C11), not useful if you have N1570.
>> 
>> N1570 is the most recent available draft of C11.
>> 
>> I haven't been able to find any public drafts of C17.  After N1570,
>> there are a number of password protected PDFs that are about the same
>> size as the standard drafts.  Presumably they're for internal use by the
>> committee.
>
> I have N2176, which is AFAIK the last public draft of C17 (it is titled
> "C17 ballot").

My copy, downloaded from
    http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2176.pdf
is password protected.

$ sha1sum n2176.pdf 
1ec16b0171df2036b9aa07e2abae89aa9a6c2e52 *n2176.pdf

(But there are unencrypted copies elsewhere.)

>> N2310 appears to be the earliest draft of the upcoming C202x standard,
>> and N2956 is probably the latest.  (C202x will probably be C2023.)
>> 
>> All actual C standards cost money.

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[ OT ] C - Open Standards Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-08 01:00 +0100
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-08 01:20 +0100
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 03:53 +0200
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-08 02:30 +0000
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-07 20:34 -0700
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-08 09:18 +0200
      Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 00:57 -0700
        Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-08 12:07 +0200
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-07-08 10:18 +0200
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-09 03:41 +0100
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-08 08:46 +0200
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-07-08 08:21 +0000
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-07-08 10:31 +0200
    Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2021-07-08 12:19 +0200
  Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2021-07-10 19:47 -0300

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