C Standard Library reference

[Dave]

What are some recommended references for the C Standard Library portion of
C++? Buying the Standard itself is impractical now that only the hardcopy
version is available...

[Andrew Koenig]

> What are some recommended references for the C Standard Library portion of

C++? Buying the Standard itself is impractical now that only the hardcopy
version is available...

The C++ standard is available in the UK in book form at a reasonable price:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470846747

I hope it will be available in the USA also before too long.

[Dave]

"Andrew Koenig" <ar*@acm.org> wrote in message
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What are some recommended references for the C Standard Library portion of C++? Buying the Standard itself is impractical now that only the hardcopy version is available...
The C++ standard is available in the UK in book form at a reasonable

price:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470846747

I hope it will be available in the USA also before too long.

Am I to understand that the 2003 version of the C++ Standard (i.e. that
which includes TC 1) also includes the full definition of the C Standard
Library (note: C, not C++) rather than just referencing it in the 1989 C
Standard (as the 1998 C++ Standard does)?

[Jack Klein]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:47:19 -0700, "Dave" <be***********@yahoo.com>
wrote in comp.lang.c++:

What are some recommended references for the C Standard Library portion of
C++? Buying the Standard itself is impractical now that only the hardcopy
version is available...

What makes you think that only the hard copy version is available?
Perhaps that's true of the older C standard, admittedly the one on
which the C++ standard is based, but the current 1999 C standard is
still available in PDF format for $18.00US:

http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstor...EC+9899%2D1999

The C standard does not specifically identify in the text which
headers and functions are new for the 1999 standard, but the C++
standard does specifically identify which C library headers and
functions are incorporated in C++.

Other than the addition of the restrict keyword to some prototypes,
and some additional conversion specifiers for *printf and *scanf, the
C99 standard's definitions of the corresponding library functions
should be accurate for standard C++.

Still, if you want the older C standard, it appears that BSI sells it
for 30.00 UK (sorry, don't have a pound symbol in this font). See
http://bsonline.techindex.co.uk/BSI2...E=SRCH_TYP_QCK

Watch out for URL wrap.

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