WG14 Defect Report Summary for ISO/IEC 9899:1999

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.