WG14 Defect Report Summary for ISO/IEC 9899:1999


Version: 1.5
Date: 2000/09/27 17:50:23

The list that follows provides a brief summary of all issues raised as separate questions within Defect Reports #0201 through #nnnn. Please note that the one-sentence summaries that follow seldom do justice to the issues, which are often subtle or complex. Read them to get a sense of the area of the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 C Standard requiring interpretation or correction. Be warned that they may well fail to properly characterize the precise concern.


Defect Report Number 201 22-Jun-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Integer types longer than long
Defect Report Number 202 22-Jun-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Change return type of certain <fenv.h> functions.
Defect Report Number 203 18-Aug-1999 Jones (US)
Q1: C locale conflict with ISO/IEC 9945-2
Defect Report Number 204 15-Sep-1999 Mak (Canada)
Q1: size_t and ptrdiff_t as a long long type
Defect Report Number 205 15-Sep-1999 Mak (Canada)
Q1: New keyword __at_least
Defect Report Number 206 13-Sep-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Default argument conversion of float _Complex
Defect Report Number 207 13-Sep-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Handling of imaginary types
Defect Report Number 208 13-Sep-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Ambiguity in initialization
Defect Report Number 209 19-Oct-1999 Gwyn (US)
Q1: Problem implementing INTN_C macros
Defect Report Number 210 19-Oct-1999 Tydeman (US)
Q1: fprintf a and A conversions recomended practice
Q2: Hexadecimal convertion using the strtod family
Defect Report Number 211 19-Oct-1999 Tydeman (US)
Q1:Accuracy of decimal string to/from "binary" (non-decimal) floating-point conversions
Defect Report Number 212 19-Oct-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Binding of multibyte conversion state objects.
Defect Report Number 213 21-Oct-1999 Feather (UK)
Q1: Lacuna in mbrtowc.
Defect Report Number 214 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: atexit, function registration.
Defect Report Number 215 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Is pointer comparison different than pointer equality?
Defect Report Number 216 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Source character encoding.
Defect Report Number 217 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: asctime, the range of representation of the year.
Defect Report Number 218 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Sign of non-numeric floating point values.
Defect Report Number 219 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Effective types.
Defect Report Number 220 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Definition of decimal integer
Defect Report Number 221 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Lacuna in pointer arithmetic
Defect Report Number 222 04-April-2000 Feather (UK)
Q1: Partially initialized structures
Defect Report Number 223 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: FP_FAST_FMAF and FP_FAST_FMAL should be integer constant
Defect Report Number 224 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: fpclassify return is not defined.
Defect Report Number 225 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: strtod, strtof and strtold expected form of the subject sequence.
Defect Report Number 226 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: strftime references.
Defect Report Number 227 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: strftime %U, %V and %W conversion specifiers.
Defect Report Number 228 10-April-2000 Plauger (US)
Q1: wmemcmp declaration in Annex B.
Defect Report Number 229 10-April-2000 Jones (US)
Q1: localeconv() *_sep_by_space table entries issues.
Defect Report Number 230 11-April-2000 Jones (UK)
Q1: Enumerated type rank.
Defect Report Number 231 14-April-2000 Noda (Japan)
Q1: Semantics of text-line and non-directive.
Defect Report Number 232 14-April-2000 Noda (Japan)
Q1: Typo in Annex I.
Defect Report Number 233 14-April-2000 Jones (US)
Q1: %g, %G precision specification.
Defect Report Number 234 26-September-2000 WG14 convener (US)
Q1: "arguments" used instead of "parameters" in 6.10.3, Macro Replacement.
Q2: VA_COPY used instead of va_copy in Forward.
Q3: int_currency_symbol used instead of int_curr_symbol in 7.11.2.1 The localeconv function.
Q4: vscanf used instead of vssanf in 7.19.6.14, The vsscanf function.
Q5: vsnprintf function synopsis is missing the n.