2003 and 1998 C++ standards?

[zeroBlockadeTheSpammingtype]

I've been checking out ANSI's webstore with the intention of getting a
copy of the C++ standard, and astonishingly it seems to be dated 2003!
Bjarne Stroustrup's site states that C++0x is still a long way from
completion, and nowhere else on the web seems to refer to the 1998
standard being replaced with a 2003 standard, so what's going on?

[Sumit Rajan]

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I've been checking out ANSI's webstore with the intention of getting a
copy of the C++ standard, and astonishingly it seems to be dated 2003!
Bjarne Stroustrup's site states that C++0x is still a long way from
completion, and nowhere else on the web seems to refer to the 1998
standard being replaced with a 2003 standard, so what's going on?

The 2003 edition/version is essentially a bug fix. Here is a list of the
changes:
http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/author.../revisions.pdf

Regards,
Sumit.
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Sumit Rajan <sumitrajan AT alexandria DOT cc>

[Bjarne Stroustrup]

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I've been checking out ANSI's webstore with the intention of getting a
copy of the C++ standard, and astonishingly it seems to be dated 2003!
Bjarne Stroustrup's site states that C++0x is still a long way from
completion, and nowhere else on the web seems to refer to the 1998
standard being replaced with a 2003 standard, so what's going on?

It's a minor "bugfix" revision. The technical term is "correganda".
C++0x is still years away.

- Bjarne Stroustrup; http://www.research.att.com/~bs

[Greg Comeau]

In article <f9********************************@4ax.com>,
<ze*************************@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've been checking out ANSI's webstore with the intention of getting a
copy of the C++ standard, and astonishingly it seems to be dated 2003!
Bjarne Stroustrup's site states that C++0x is still a long way from
completion, and nowhere else on the web seems to refer to the 1998
standard being replaced with a 2003 standard, so what's going on?

As defect report processing on C++98 continued, the committee
originally intended on issuing two TC's. Long story short is
that C++03 is C++98 with TC1 applied to it. It has been issued
as a revised standard, which normally replaced previous versions.
So the current Standard C++ is ISO/EIC 14882:2003.
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Thanks, everyone!