Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!richard From: richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Any difference between draft and ANSI C ? (Was:Re: getting started) Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 18:55:38 GMT References: <1991Jan22.020449.20131@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <1991Jan23.022639.1677@NCoast.ORG> <14943@smoke.brl.mil> <2687@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 23 In-reply-to: lwj@cs.kun.nl's message of 24 Jan 91 13:39:59 GMT >>>>> On 24 Jan 91 13:39:59 GMT, lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) said: Luc> The revised Second Edition (the one with the "ANSI C" stamp on the Luc> cover) does indeed include the corrections. Some of them are not so Luc> minor, however (e.g., initialisation of automatic structs...) I remember having compared the "draft-proposed ANSI" to the "real" ANSI, when it was published. As I browsed the two, I could find no differences at all: they had the exact same length and everywhere I looked, the text was positioned at exactly the same positions (yes, in app A too). Even the two prefaces (?) mentions (in exact same words), that this isn't the "final standard, as we still have to wait for ANSI" (I can't quote it; I've got both K&R2 + a copy and a copy of K&R1 but they've all been borrowed from me at the moment). I know, that this isn't a fulfilling diff, but I'm lead to believe they are completely alike. Could somebody point out the differences? [he says, knowing that in case of them being different, he can be d*mn sure everybody will point it out ;-)] Richard -- /Richard Flamsholt richard@iesd.auc.dk