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Does the C standard have a website for defect reports?


In my previous question, the discussion seems to imply that there might be a defect in the C standard, further implied by the top answerer's last sentence:

The authors of the standard merely neglected to say so.

I'm aware that C++ has an online website where you can search for defect reports, i.e. here is my search for null pointer constant, but is there something similar for the C standard?


Solution

  • Keeping up with the C standards process is not as convenient as keeping up with the C++ process but by starting from the WG14 page we can find the Defect report summary for C11 linked at the top and with a some extra work we can come up with the

    We can also find the lastest proposal by looking for the mailings also linked on the top of the site, currently:

    we can find a list of mailings going back to 1996 in the documents section.

    As far as I know WG14 does not have a comparable site to isocpp.org which along with the twitter feed makes it pretty easy to keep up with WG21.

    For C++ I usually pick up the latest defect report list from isocpp.org when the latest pre-meeting mailing comes out, for example the latest one is the Pre-Urbana mailing. You can also find the most recent defect list by going to the WG21 site and looking for C++ Standard Core Language Issues List:

    For the draft standards documents the canonical question would be Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?. As far as I know all the public C and C++ draft standards are linked from that question.