On 6/21/06, Gregory Margo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI, the C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899-1999) is available on Amazon or Bookpool, and probably other sites, for about $75 list.
$30 from ANSI: http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=INCITS%2FISO%2FIEC+9899-1999
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470845732/ref=sr_11_1/102-4132906-9254519?%5Fencoding=UTF8 http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0470845732 In the end though, IMHO, if you're writing C code you should use the /**/ syntax. If you have a choice, always code for maximum portability and maintainability.
Doesn't notion of what is portable change with time. There's certain gray area where "maximum portability" implies "support those very old very non-standard compilers". It reminds me how prototypes were not portable many years after 1990, until C compilers got to support them, gradually. Yakov
