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diff --git a/share/man/man7/Makefile b/share/man/man7/Makefile index d979a64..da7b397 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man7/Makefile @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ MAN= adding_user.7 \ bsd.snmpmod.mk.7 \ build.7 \ clocks.7 \ + c99.7 \ development.7 \ environ.7 \ ffs.7 \ @@ -27,5 +28,9 @@ MAN= adding_user.7 \ MLINKS= intro.7 miscellaneous.7 MLINKS+= security.7 securelevel.7 +MLINKS+= c99.7 c.7 +MLINKS+= c99.7 c79.7 +MLINKS+= c99.7 c89.7 +MLINKS+= c99.7 c90.7 .include <bsd.prog.mk> diff --git a/share/man/man7/c99.7 b/share/man/man7/c99.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b76442 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man7/c99.7 @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2007, 2010 Gabor Kovesdan. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd June 17, 2010 +.Dt C 7 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm c, c78, c89, c90, c99 +.Nd The C programming language +.Sh DESCRIPTION +C is a general purpose programming language, which has a strong connection +with the UNIX operating system and its derivatives, since the vast +majority of those systems were written in the C language. +The C language contains some basic ideas from the BCPL language through +the B language written by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the DEC PDP-7 machines. +The development of the UNIX operating system was started on a PDP-7 +machine in assembly language, but it made very difficult to port the existing +code to other systems. +.Pp +In 1972 Dennis M. Ritchie worked out the C programming language for +further development of the UNIX operating system. +The idea was to implement only the C compiler for different +platforms, and implement most part of the operating system +in the new programming language to simplify the portability between +different architectures. +It follows that C is very eligible for (but not limited to) writing +operating systems and low-level applications. +.Pp +The C language did not have a specification or standardized version for +a long time. +It went through a lot of changes and improvements for ages. +In 1978, Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie published the +first book about C under the title "The C Programming Language". +We can think of this book as the first specification of the language. +This version is often referred as K&R C after the names of the authors. +Sometimes it is referred as C78, as well, after the publishing year of +the first edition of the book. +.Pp +It is important to notice, that the instruction set of the language is +limited to the most fundamental elements for simplicity. +Handling of the standard I/O and such common functions are implemented in +the libraries shipped with the compiler. +As these functions are also widely used, it was demanded to include into +the description what requisites the library should conform to, not just +strictly the language itself. +Accordingly, the aforementioned standards cover the library elements, as well. +The elements of this standard library is still not enough for more +complicated tasks. +In this case the provided system calls of the given operating system can be +used. +To not loose the portability by using these system calls, the POSIX +(Portable Operating System Interface) standard evolved. +It describes what functions should be available to keep portability. +Note, that POSIX is not a C standard, but an operating system standard +and thus is beyond the scope of this manual. +The standards discussed below are all C standards and only cover +the C programming language and the accompanying library. +.Pp +After the publication of the book mentioned before, +the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) started to work on +standardizing the language, and they announced ANSI X3.159-1989 +in 1989. +It is usually referred as ANSI C or C89. +The main difference in this standard were the function prototypes, +which is a new way of declaring functions. +With the old-style function declarations, the compiler was unable to +check the sanity of the actual parameters at a function call. +The old syntax was highly error-prone because incompatible parameters +were hard to detect in the program code and the problem only showed up +at run-time. +.Pp +In 1990, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted +the ANSI standard as ISO/IEC 9899:1990 in 1990. +This is also referred as ISO C or C90. +It only contains negligible minor modifications against ANSI C, +so the two standards often considered to be fully equivalent. +This was a very important milestone in the history of the C language, but the +development of the language did not stop. +.Pp +The ISO C standard was later extended with an amendment as +ISO/IEC 9899 AM1 in 1995. +This contained, for example, the wide-character support in wchar.h and +wctype.h. +Two corregenda were also published: Technical Corrigendum 1 as +ISO/IEC 9899 TCOR1 in 1995 and Technical Corrigendum 2 as ISO/IEC 9899 TCOR1 +in 1996. +The continuous development and growth made it necessary to work out a new +standard, which contains the new features and fixes the known defects and +deficiencies of the language. +As a result, ISO/IEC 9899:1999 was born in 1999. +Similarly to the other standards, this is referred after the +publication year as C99. +The improvements include the following: +.Bl -bullet -offset indent +.It +Inline functions +.It +Support for variable length arrays +.It +New high-precision integer type named long long int, and other integer types +defined in stdint.h +.It +New boolen data type implemented in stdbool.h +.It +One line comments taken from the C++ language +.It +Some new preprocessor features +.It +New variables can be declared anywhere, not just in the beginning of the +program or program blocks +.It +No implicit int type +.El +.Pp +Since then new standards have not been published, but the C language is still +evolving. +New and useful features have been showed up in the most famous +C compiler: GNU C. +Most of the UNIX-like operating systems use GNU C as a system compiler, +but those addition in GNU C should not be considered as +standard features. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cc 1 , +.Xr c89 1 , +.Xr c99 1 +.Sh STANDARDS +.Rs +.%A ANSI +.%T X3.159-1989 +.Re +.Pp +.Rs +.%A ISO/IEC +.%T 9899:1990, Programming languages -- C +.Re +.Pp +.Rs +.%A ISO/IEC +.%T 9899 AM1 +.Re +.Pp +.Rs +.%A ISO/IEC +.%T 9899 TCOR1, Programming languages -- C, Technical Corrigendum 1 +.Re +.Pp +.Rs +.%A ISO/IEC +.%T 9899 TCOR2, Programming languages -- C, Technical Corrigendum 2 +.Re +.Pp +.Rs +.%A ISO/IEC +.%T 9899:1999, Programming languages -- C +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +This manual page first appeared in +.Fx 9.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +This manual page was originally written by +.An Gabor Kovesdan Aq gabor@FreeBSD.org . |
