C99 still isn't supported by many compilers, and much of the focus is now on C++, and its upcoming standard C++1x.
I'm curious as to what C will "get" in its next standard, when it will get it, and how it will keep C competitive. C and C++ are known to feed on one another's improvements, will C be feeding on the C++1x standard?
What can I look forward to in C's future?
The ISO/IEC 9899:2011 standard, aka C11, was published in December 2011.
The latest draft is N1570; I'm not aware of any differences between it and the final standard. There's already a Technical Corrigendum fixing an oversight in the specification of __STDC_VERSION__
(now 201112L
) and the optional __STDC_LIB_EXT1__
(now 201112L
).
I was typing a list of of features, but noticed the Wikipedia page on C1X has a pretty complete listing of all proposed changes.
On the ISO C working group posts 'after meeting' mailings on their website. One of the more interesting is this Editor's Report.
Here's a summary from the Wikipedia page:
_Align
specifier, alignof
operator, aligned_alloc
function) _Thread_local
storage-class specifier, <threads.h>
header including thread creation/management functions, mutex, condition variable and thread-specific storage functionality) char16_t
and char32_t
types for storing UTF-16/UTF-32 encoded data, including the corresponding u and U string literal prefixes and conversion functions in <uchar.h>
) gets
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