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Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard. (ISO and
ANSI organizations charge for it.) I have searched the web but failed
to find it.

This is the latest version?

ISO/IEC 9899:1999

What new C features are planned for the next revision of the standard?

--The Directive

The Directive wrote:
>
> Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard.

You would have to buy one first.

> (ISO and ANSI organizations charge for it.)
> I have searched the web but failed to find it.

There's a cause and effect relationship
between those last two statements.

--
pete

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> Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard. (ISO and
> ANSI organizations charge for it.) I have searched the web but failed
> to find it.

Why is 18$ too much?

(The Directive) writes:
> Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard. (ISO and
> ANSI organizations charge for it.) I have searched the web but failed
> to find it.

You can't, unless someone buys you a copy as a gift.

The question of whether the standard should be free is being discussed
at length on comp.std.c, but for the forseeable future, you can't get
a copy without paying for it.

> This is the latest version?
>
> ISO/IEC 9899:1999

Yes, but there's also been a short Technical Corrigendum, published
2001-09-01. I think TC1 is available for free.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst- <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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In < > (The Directive) writes:

>Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard. (ISO and
>ANSI organizations charge for it.) I have searched the web but failed
>to find it.

If the copyright owners charge for it, isn't it obvious that any freely
availabe copy on the Web would be a fraud (and, therefore, illegal)?

>This is the latest version?
>
>ISO/IEC 9899:1999

Nope, it has been amended in 2001.

>What new C features are planned for the next revision of the standard?

This is a very well kept secret

Dan
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In <> "Servé Lau" <> writes:

>"The Directive" <> wrote in message
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>> Where can I get a free legal copy of the latest C standard. (ISO and
>> ANSI organizations charge for it.) I have searched the web but failed
>> to find it.
>
>Why is 18$ too much?

He may not like the legal strings attached to the $18 copy.

Dan
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In <> Keith Thompson <kst-> writes:

>2001-09-01. I think TC1 is available for free.

It is, if you manage to find it. But it's perfectly useless in the
absence of the C99 standard. And impossible to physically apply to the
$18 PDF version of the standard.

Dan
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