Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 12:50:05 +0200 (MDT)
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To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: POSIX and ANSI?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 15.24 1997-06-04 PDT, you wrote:
>> 
>> I was wondering where I can get a hold of the official ANSI C respecive
>> ANSI C++ specifications. 
>
>I believe that you must order them from ANSI.  Check out www.ansi.org 
>for details.  You probably don't want to get the actual standard though.
>A decent book is much more useful.
>
>> I'm also wondering what POSIX is,
>POSIX is a standard for operating systems based on UNIX.  It was 
>ratified one year after C was.  It specifies things like
>
>1) Process Control
>2) Users and groups
>3) Terminal IO
>4) File descriptors
>
>Things like fork, dup, open, close, ioctl, ....  
>
>>  and where I can get information about that?!
>
>This I actually have a copy of.  Here's the info off of the cover
>
>ISO/IEC 9945-1 : 1990
>IEEE Std 1003.1-1990
>
>ISBN 1.55937-061-0
>
>The publisher was IEEE.
>
>Again, this is pretty dull stuff, without much in the way of application.
>You probably want 
>
>"Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"
>by W Richard Stevens 
>published by Addison Wesley

Well, actually I want something that would describe ANSI standards, so that
I can write a program that I am sure is fully ANSI compatible, and
according to the documents GCC with the -ansi and -pedantic flags does not
quite fully check that. I don't know, maybe there is some other document
available on the computer that can tell me about this stuff?


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