On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:20:09AM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > > yes it is, and i am surprised it is ~ $50. it is such a small book. > > FWIW, you can read the C specification drafts online for free: > > C89: http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt > C99: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf > C11: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
The actual C standard costs something like $20 if you order it from ANSI. ISO has it ways more expensive. Wiley put out a paper version of the C99 and C++98 standards. They don't seem to have a release planned for the 2011 versions (I tried asking them thru their online form. In typical marketroid version, I'm pretty sure my message fell thru a black hole, no answer at all...) I'm also fairly fond of Harbison&Steele's "C: a reference manual", which is a different take on the C standard thingy (those guys being C compiler implementers, they will tend to discuss fine points of the language. They have the best description of the signed/unsigned char conumdrum I've seen).
