[Courses] Re : C Programming for Absolute Beginners, text book?

[jim]

Carla, 
        Re C89, C99 (and C90 and C11), thanks for mentioning 
these. I had no idea these specs existed. I'd only known of 
"K&R C" and "ANSI C". 

    Briefly (I hope I can be brief), when I use a search 
engine to look for "C programming C 89", the top-most link is 
to a wikipedia page for ANSI C. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C 
    The "89" part refers to the year, 1989. Best I can tell, 
it's this spec people refer to when they talk about ANSI C. 
    There's a C90 that seems to have tweaked the C89 spec a 
bit. 
    There's a C99 that "adopted the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard." 
This seems to add a significant set of new features to the 
language. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 

    C11, done in 2011, seems to have added more changes to the 
C programming language specification. According to the wikipedia 
page for C11, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29 
C11 is "the current standard for the C programming language." 


    On a more directly practical point, I have been assuming that 
C Programming for Absolute Beginners will be an intro to ANSI C, 
otherwise known as C89. 
    I can happily just eat what's given me, but I'm curious to 
know if this course will cover C99 and/or C11 features. 

    You (and we) are certainly off to an exciting start. 

More thanks, 
jim 



On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 20:38 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > When you look in /etc/alternatives you see another cc > gcc links,
> > > and how C89
> > > and C99 standards support are handled:
> > > 
> > > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives | grep cc
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 Jun  2  2011 cc -> /usr/bin/gcc
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 Jun  2  2011 c89 -> /usr/bin/c89-gcc
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 Jun  2  2011 c99 -> /usr/bin/c99-gcc
> > 
> > I do not have these files in my system, using of gcc v4.6 and fedora16.
> > $ ll /etc/alternatives/ | grep cc
> > $ gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1)
> > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > 
> > Is that means my gcc does not have the compatibility with c89 and c99?
> 
> > Best,
> > Chao
> 
>  I don't know, Chao, I'm running Debian so maybe Fedora packages it 
> differently. Any Fedora users out there who can shed some light?
> 
>  best,
> Carla
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