Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On 20/03/2025 13:06, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
 

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I'm not sure a new edition is necessary, but if it is to be
written it would be better served by someone like Keith or Tim,
both of whom have (as I have not) kept up with the million-and-one
changes that appear to have assailed the simple language I once
enjoyed.

 The C99 standard has a list of 54 what it calls "major changes",
although IMO many or most of those are fairly minor.  There are also
other differences relative to C90, but most of them are simply
clarifications or slight changes in wording.

Those I largely recall from discussions at the time, but I dare to conclude that your lack of a reference to C11, C17, and C23 means that they had a lesser effect on the language than I'd feared.
I see now from casual research that C17 was predominantly a bug fix, but that C11 and C23 were somewhat busier.
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