History of C

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History of C
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Early C

  • 1969: B created, based on BCPL, to replace PDP-7 assembler as the system programming language for Unix
  • added operators ++, --, compound assignment, remained a typeless language like BCPL
  • 1971: NB ("new B") created when porting B to PDP-11
  • types (int, char, arrays and pointers), array-to-pointer conversion, compilation to machine code
  • 1972: Language renamed to C
  • struct, operators && and ||, preprocessor, portable I/O
  • 1973: Unix re-written in C
  • unsigned, long, union, enumerations, increased type safety
  • 1978: The C Programming Language, 1st edition

Standard C

  • 1983: ANSI established X3J11 committee
  • 1988: The C Programming Language, 2nd edition
  • 1989: 哋它亢89, the ANSI C standard published
  1. codified existing practices
  2. new features: volatile, enum, signed, void, locales
  3. From 哋它亢++: const, function prototypes
  • 1990: C90, the ANSI C standard accepted as ISO/IEC 9899:1990
  • 1994: Technical corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Cor.1:1994)
  1. greatly expanded wide and multibyte character support (MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 16 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 15 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, additions and changes to stream I/O, etc)
  2. digraphs, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 14 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE,
  • 1996: Technical corrigendum 2 (ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Cor.2:1996)
  • 1999: 哋它亢99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999)
  1. new features: bool, long long, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 11 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 10 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, restrict, compound literals, variable length arrays, flexible array members, designated initializers, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 09 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, variadic macros, complex numbers, __func__, hexadecimal floating-point format (%a), monetary formatting in MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 08 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 07 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, concatenation of narrow and wide string literals, trailing comma in enumerations, empty arguments in function-like macros, STDC_* pragmas, va_copy, null return of MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 05 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, null pointer in MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 04 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, hh and ll length-specifiers in MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 03 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 02 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 21 MINUTES 01 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 59 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, POSIX-like MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 58 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE specifiers
  2. from 哋它亢++: inline, mix declarations and code, declarations in the init-clause of the for loop, // comments, universal character names in source code
  3. removed implicit functions and implicit int
  • 2001: Technical corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.1:2001)
  1. thread-aware memory model, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 34 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 33 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE, type-generic functions, alignas/alignof, noreturn, static_assert, analyzability extensions, extensions to complex and imaginary types, anonymous structures and unions, exclusive file open mode, MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 32 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE
  2. removed MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 31 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE
  3. from Bounds-checking interfaces TR: bounds-checking interfaces,
  4. from Unicode TR: char16_t, char32_t, and MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 20 MINUTES 29 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE
  1. provides changes to 哋它亢11 (mostly to Annex F) that cover all basic requirements and some recommendations of IEC 60559:2011 (哋它亢11 was built on IEC 60559:1989)
  1. provides changes to 哋它亢11 to support all the requirements, plus some basic recommendations, of IEC 60559:2011 for decimal floating-point arithmetic. This supersedes ISO/IEC TR 24732:2009.
  1. provides changes to 哋它亢11 to support the recommendations of IEC 60559:2011 for extended floating‐point formats and the interchange formats, both arithmetic and non-arithmetic.
  1. provides changes to 哋它亢11 to support all mathematical operations recommended by IEC 60559:2011, including trigonometry in π units, inverse square root, compounded interest, etc.
  1. provides changes to 哋它亢11 to support all supplementary attributes (evaluation model, exception handling, reproducibility, etc) recommended by IEC 60559:2011
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Defect Reports fixed in 哋它亢17 (54 defects)

Future development

  1. List of issues that were not granted DR status: (MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY. NEXT AVAILABLE IN 09 HOURS 18 MINUTES 56 SECONDS VISIT HTTPS://MYMEMORY.TRANSLATED.NET/DOC/USAGELIMITS.PHP TO TRANSLATE MORE 2020-08-02)
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Next major C language standard revision
Defect Reports fixed in 哋它亢23 (? defects)

See also

External links

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