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NCITS Announces the Public Review Comment Period for ISO/IEC CD 9899, Information technology - Programming languages - Programming Language C (Revision of ISO/IEC 9899:1990)

NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards)

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Doc. No.: PR/97-157
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

NCITS Announces the Public Review Comment Period for ISO/IEC CD 9899, Information technology - Programming languages - Programming Language C (Revision of ISO/IEC 9899:1990)

Washington D.C., December 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards is announcing the public comment period for ISO/IEC CD 9899. The public review extends from January 2, 1998, to March 3, 1998.

This International Standard specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C programming language. It specifies the representation of C programs; the syntax and constraints of the C language, the semantic rules for interpreting C programs; the representation of input data to be processed by C programs; the representation of output data produced by C programs; and the restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming implementation of C.

Note: This draft international standard is being processed simultaneously as an American National Standard and an International Standard.

Public Review Comment Instructions:

There seems to be many versions (pdf, html, word, etc.) of this committee draft in informal distribution. The quality of the conversion is inconsistent. To avoid unnessecary committee effort, do not send formal comments unless the references are to the ISO/IEC CD 9899, CD Approval Ballot for CD 9899 (SC22 N2620).

In order to facilitate the speedy consideration of comments, the following suggestions are strongly encouraged:
1) use attached form for public review comments;
2) please submit them via email to (ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us).

All public review comments must include name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address if applicable.

The public review period closes on March 3, 1998. All commentors are urged to submit comments as early in the public review period as possible. Public review comments received after March 3, 1988 will be addressed and considered for future balloting and/or revision.

Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036 (wluk@ansi.org).

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202)638-4922.

The document can be purchased for $40.00 from American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036. Telephone: 212-642-4900