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  References in FAQ Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2016-08-13 18:40 +0200
    Re: References in FAQ Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-13 18:10 +0100

#92230 — References in FAQ

What do the references in the FAQ mean? I didn't see anything about it
in the introduction.

E.g. at
http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr1.html
it says "References: ISO Sec. 6.5.4.2"

One might guess that this refers to some ISO standard, but neither ISO
C99 nor ISO C11 has a section 6.5.4.2. Or it might refer to the second
senetnce in 6.5.4, which for both C99 and C11 is "Unless the type name
specifies a void type, the type name shall specify qualified or
unqualified scalar type and the operand shall have scalar type." which
doesn't make sense as a reference here.

Philipp

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Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:

> What do the references in the FAQ mean? I didn't see anything about it
> in the introduction.

They refer to ISO C from 1990 (I had to read the "references" section to
find out).

> E.g. at
> http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr1.html
> it says "References: ISO Sec. 6.5.4.2"

Pretty much the only difference between what is colloquially called
"ANSI C" and ISO C was the section numbering that went up by 3 in most
places to account for ISO boiler plate when ISO ratified the ANSI
standard.  The reference is to what is numbered 3.5.4.2 in ANSI C.  The
text can be found here:

  http://www.bsb.me.uk/ansi-c/ansi-c-one-file.html#sec_3_5_4_2

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-- 
Ben.

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