I am sitting here with a document that has no cover (or, rather, has a
table of contents for a cover) and has the words "First Amendment to the ISO C
Standard.  X3J16/93-0057 WG21/NO264" handwritten on it.  On all of the pages
after the introduction, the header says "SC22/WG14/N__ 1993-1-1" and "[to be
(C) ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1993 (E)]".  The footer says "SC22/WG14/N__
1993-1-1" and "printed: 1993-2-24".  I have a few questions about this
document:

    Is this a draft of the first amendment to ISO/IEC 9899:1990?

    Does a more current version of this document exist?  If so, what changes
     have been made?

    Has the first amendment to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 been accepted by ISO?  By
     ANSI?

    Does "ANSI C", to use the vernacular, now include this amendment?

    Has this amendment been picked up by the ANSI C++ committee, and if so, are
     there any differences between the amendment as applied to ISO/IEC
     9899:1990 versus the amendment as applied to the emerging C++ standard?

--
John Davison
davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu

In article <CJsMAt.97s@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison) writes:
>    Is this a draft of the first amendment to ISO/IEC 9899:1990?

Yes

>    Does a more current version of this document exist?  If so, what changes
>     have been made?

Yes. I'm not exactly sure what version you've got, so the answer is
probably "a lot". The document is currently undergoing final editorial
review before being sent to ISO for the final vote.

>    Has the first amendment to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 been accepted by ISO?  By
>     ANSI?

It's been accepted as a "Draft Amendment", subject to comments which the
present editorial review will handle. It then has to be voted on before
it becomes part of the Standard.

>    Does "ANSI C", to use the vernacular, now include this amendment?

Not yet. If it passes the final vote, then "ANSI C" will include it.

>    Has this amendment been picked up by the ANSI C++ committee, and if so, are
>     there any differences between the amendment as applied to ISO/IEC
>     9899:1990 versus the amendment as applied to the emerging C++ standard?

I don't do Windows or C++, so I can't answer that.

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In <comp.std.c,comp.std.c++> davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison) writes:
>
>  Has this amendment been picked up by the ANSI C++ committee, and if so, are
>  there any differences between the amendment as applied to ISO/IEC
>  9899:1990 versus the amendment as applied to the emerging C++ standard?

It was tentatively approved pending the final vote by ISO SC22.  There
are no differences, except that the changes will presumably be
directly incorporated into the C++ standard, rather than being
published as an ammendment.

     -- Dag Bruck