Re: comment style

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:31:09 -0500


From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 08 Dec 1997 12:18:08 +0100

|> As far as I know, ISO C is not a standard yet.

ISO C *is* the current standard. There is no difference between ISO C and
ANSI C (except the latter being USA centric).

There is the C standard where the work was done in ANSI, which ISO then
blessed, and the new C standard which is currently being worked on
within an ISO working group.

Many people refer to the C standard where the work was done in ANSI as
"ANSI C", and the upcoming modifications to the C standard (which will
add explicitly bit-width sized types, among other things), as ISO C.
(Which is to say, the upcoming C standard which the ISO folks are
conspiring to inflict on the rest of world. :-)

- Ted