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Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards

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On 08/07/2021 09:57, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 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.)
> 

My copy is not protected at all.  (Unsurprisingly, the sha1sum is
different from yours.)  I don't remember where I got it, as it was in
October 2019 - but I am reasonably confident it was from an official
source (such as the wg14 web pages).  Maybe they changed their policies
at some point.

>>> 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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