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Re: [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:58:09 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11
References: <877e3571jh.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <5337dac7-77ad-85d2-e3ba-254e6f41e468@cs.ucla.edu> <87muc05q87.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <aa4cdd1b-cc35-e186-f68a-6de77bc7f396@cs.ucla.edu>

On Dez 10 2019, Paul Eggert wrote:

> A different topic: shouldn't the manual refer to ISO C18 (the current
> version of the C standard) rather than to ISO C11 (the previous one)?

I think it makes sense to keep C11 which is when it was added.
Otherwise it should rather say just ISO C, so that it doesn't have to be
changed each time the standard is updated.

Andreas.

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References:
- [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] manual: fopen with the x flag does not follow ISO C11
  - From: Paul Eggert

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