The GNU C Library. Compile and Execute C online. Comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions. Welcome! - The Apache Portable Runtime Project. Apache Portable Runtime: Modules. Learn Code The Hard Way -- Books And Courses To Learn To Code. Learn C The Hard Way A Clear & Direct Introduction To Modern C Programming. C90, C99, C++ DIFF. The C programming language began to be standardized some time around 1985 by the ANSI X3J9 committee. Several years of effort went by, and in 1989 ANSI approved the new standard. An ISO committee ratified it a year later in 1990 after adding an amendment dealing with internationalization issues. The 1989 C standard is known officially as ANSI/ISO 9899-1989, Programming Languages - C, and this document refers to the 1989 C standard as C89.
The 1990 ISO revision of the standard is known officially as ISO/IEC 9899-1990, Programming Languages - C, which is referred to in this document as "C90". The next version of the C standard was ratified by ISO in 1999. Officially know as ISO/IEC 9899-1999, Programming Languages - C, it is referred to in this document as "C99". The C++ programming language was based on the C programming language as it existed shortly after the ANSI C standardization effort had begun. This document lists only the incompatibilities between C99 and C++98.
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