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Rename to C11[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved to C11 (C standard revision). Vegaswikian (talk) 02:38, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

C1X → C11 – C1X is ISO from 2011, so x=1. "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/" says "New revision of ISO/IEC 9899:2011 C standard (C11) published"; the C11 is used in comp.lang.c and comp.std.c http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.c/browse_thread/thread/cd83c0251080604a# `a5b (talk) 03:22, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed; however there is already a dab page at C11, so it should be moved to something like C11 (C standard revision). --memset (talk) 19:49, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree --Oneiros (talk) 23:21, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree Rathgemz (talk) 22:36, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Implementations[edit]

Section on Implementations is needed, eg Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2012 plus those mentioned in the introduction. John a s (talk) 22:03, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Updated C standard[edit]

There appears to be an update to the C standard. While searching for it I came across:

https://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+9899%3a2011+(R2017)

This is the ANSI store where the C11 revision R2017 document is up for sale.

Should this be referred to as C18?

Pcovello (talk) 03:50, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but NO, it's still C11, because of the "2011" in the title "INCITS/ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (R2017)". Though I don't have a copy, my guess it's an "errata" release that fixes typos and other minor mistakes, which is fairly typical in large documents. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 15:23, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whether or not ANSI's "R2017" is the same as ISO's "2018", it's actually an interesting question how the new standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018) should be referred to. The committee has been calling it "C17" informally (multiple mentions in WG14 papers), and it is referred to as "C17" by gcc and clang (both support -std=c17 and -std=gnu17), but gcc now also aliases that to -std=c18 and -std=gnu18 --Cubbi (talk) 13:06, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I feel we need to look at ISO committee for answers. GCC is not the official source. Sometimes GCC does things to line up how ever it makes sense to them at the time of doing something. Their ARM naming methods are a mess compared to official ARM names. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 13:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think the __STDC_VERSION__ is still 201710L even in the published ISO 9899:2018, so it makes some sense to keep referring to it as C17 and not C18. The most recent FDIS reads: "This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition, ISO/IEC 9899:2011, which has been technically revised. It also incorporates the Technical Corrigendum ISO/IEC 9899:2011/Cor 1:2012. There are no major changes in this edition, only technical corrections and clarifications." So this is definitely a new edition of the standard, unlike the previous corrigenda and the C95 amendment for which the edition number was not changed, and it should't be referred to as C11 anymore. -- Angbor (talk) 10:07, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I created C18 (C standard revision) to cover it. We don't need a feature release for a new article, as long as it's notable so I just did it. As for the title, WP:COMMONNAME applies and I've left both informal names in per usage in sources, and created the redirect C17 (C standard revision) and entries in both C17 C18 dabs. Widefox; talk 11:13, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of some interest is the view stats for the different standards [1] where C18 already has half the daily views of each of the others, with C11 the most popular. Widefox; talk 13:02, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Widefox. Great work! (FWIW, I expect that ISO/IEC 9899:2018 is almost certainly going to be called "C18", because most C programmers won't care what it was called during development.) Cheers, CWC 04:42, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that's my assumption with the name, but due to strings baked into implementations in 2017, C17 doesn't seem to want to disappear unlike the C1X precedent. Widefox; talk 09:16, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note Talk:C18 (C standard revision) is the correct place for further discussion on this. Widefox; talk 09:36, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Linux kernel[edit]

The Linux kernel will be moving to the C11 standard. Add comment to this effect in this Wiki article, as this is hugely significant software. 82.21.55.166 (talk)

Helpbox experiment[edit]

I added a Template:Helpbox as an EXPERIMENT, in the hopes that it might help readers quickly navigate to other C language revisions.

About 4.5 years ago, I created a similar navigation experiment for 6 loop construct articles, such as Do while loop. After being a successful experiment, it was later converted into a template for use in those 6 articles.

Originally, I got this idea from some other Wikipedia articles that have a navigator template in the upper-right corner, such as Old Testament and other religious articles.

I used the Helpbox template as an easy means to create an experimental concept, instead of creating a template, then learning that everyone hated the navigation concept and wasting a bunch of my time.

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 00:50, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sbmeirow, why not use {{Sidebar}}, which can used in main space, unlike {{Helpbox}}, which is meant for Wikipedia namespace and Help namespace? —⁠andrybak (talk) 03:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I used Helpbox, because I came across it at some point in the past and started using it because it was simple to use. So now I borrowed from the helpbox template to create a first draft sidebar as you can see in this section. Does it look ok? Any mistakes? • Sbmeirow • Talk • 22:53, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another experiment, I created a more compact sidebar that takes up less vertical space. This version looks better on the C99 article when it is placed above that cover photo. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 23:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sbmeirow The second version looks good. It's low profile and shouldn't get in the way of the article, plus having the version navigation near the top is handy. I'm thinking about copying this for the C++ revisions, but I'm thinking it would do better as a template, to reduce duplication or editing overhead. Edit: I've gone ahead and made it into a template (plus an equivalent for C++). — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 19:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]