Dear all,
I found in the ISO web site that C is an ISO standard. I wonder if it
refers to the requirements for implementing the C programming language and
its library (like C++), or the langauge specification (like C#)? Thanks!
Regards,
Zoe
6  1196  zo************@yahoo.com scribbled the following: Dear all,
I found in the ISO web site that C is an ISO standard. I wonder if it
refers to the requirements for implementing the C programming language and
its library (like C++), or the langauge specification (like C#)? Thanks!
AFAIK the ISO C standard is a language specification. But so is the ISO
C++ standard. Could you explain what you mean by "the requirements for
implementing the programming language and its library"?
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>> I found in the ISO web site that C is an ISO standard. I wonder if it refers to the requirements for implementing the C programming language
and
its library (like C++), or the langauge specification (like C#)? Thanks!
AFAIK the ISO C standard is a language specification. But so is the ISO
C++ standard. Could you explain what you mean by "the requirements for
implementing the programming language and its library"?
"The requirements for implementing the programming language and its
library" - I think it should be the syntax and the semantics for C (or
others?). Will these lead to the same program behavior with different
implementations? Thanks!
Regards,
Zoe zo************@yahoo.com scribbled the following: I found in the ISO web site that C is an ISO standard. I wonder if it
refers to the requirements for implementing the C programming language
and
its library (like C++), or the langauge specification (like C#)? Thanks!
AFAIK the ISO C standard is a language specification. But so is the ISO
C++ standard. Could you explain what you mean by "the requirements for
implementing the programming language and its library"?
"The requirements for implementing the programming language and its
library" - I think it should be the syntax and the semantics for C (or
others?). Will these lead to the same program behavior with different
implementations? Thanks!
Yes, C has an ISO standard specifying its syntax and semantics. But I
fail to see how this differs from a language specification.
Whether this leads to the same program behaviour with different
implementations depends on the conformance level of your program. If you
only use the features described in the standard, then yes. (Actually,
provisionally yes - you might run into implementation-defined stuff for
example in alignment issues.) But most OSes and compiler vendors have
their own APIs, either open or proprietary, but always non-standard. Use
of these will make your program non-portable.
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> Yes, C has an ISO standard specifying its syntax and semantics. But I fail to see how this differs from a language specification.
Mm... I think a language specification should define a program's behavior
also, like the one in Java (though Java is not an ISO standard).
Whether this leads to the same program behaviour with different
implementations depends on the conformance level of your program. If you
only use the features described in the standard, then yes. (Actually,
provisionally yes - you might run into implementation-defined stuff for
example in alignment issues.) But most OSes and compiler vendors have
their own APIs, either open or proprietary, but always non-standard. Use
of these will make your program non-portable.
I see. Thanks very much! Btw, as you mentioned, C is platform dependent,
so if I only use the features described in the standard, only the C source
is portable, but not the executable.
Regards,
Zoe zo************@yahoo.com wrote: I see. Thanks very much! Btw, as you mentioned, C is platform dependent,
so if I only use the features described in the standard, only the C source
is portable, but not the executable.
And since when is "the executable" portable for any language? If you
want to claim that some interpreted language or language compiled to
some intermediate form qualifies, then remember that the interpreter or
"engine" is part of the executable.
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fail to see how this differs from a language specification.
Mm... I think a language specification should define a program's behavior
also, like the one in Java (though Java is not an ISO standard).
Java is based on an official definition, but it's published by Sun, not
by ISO. So Java is not as "standardised" as C.
Whether this leads to the same program behaviour with different
implementations depends on the conformance level of your program. If you
only use the features described in the standard, then yes. (Actually,
provisionally yes - you might run into implementation-defined stuff for
example in alignment issues.) But most OSes and compiler vendors have
their own APIs, either open or proprietary, but always non-standard. Use
of these will make your program non-portable.
I see. Thanks very much! Btw, as you mentioned, C is platform dependent,
so if I only use the features described in the standard, only the C source
is portable, but not the executable.
Yes, that's right. The compiled executable form of C code is generally
not portable across implementations.
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