As I was checking news about GCC 8, I saw that they added support for the 2017 version of the C language (not C++17, really C17). But I can't find any information about it on Internet.
Is it a new ISO version like C11, or just a codename used by the GCC team for some corrections in their compiler ?
According to GCC reference, C17 is actually a bug-fix version of the C11 standard with DR resolutions integrated.
C17, a bug-fix version of the C11 standard with DR [Defect Report] resolutions integrated, will soon go to ballot. This patch adds corresponding options
-std=c17,-std=gnu17(new default version, replacing-std=gnu11as the default),-std=iso9899:2017. As a bug-fix version of the standard, there is no need forflag_isoc17or any options for compatibility warnings; however, there is a new__STDC_VERSION__value, so new cpplib languagesCLK_GNUC17andCLK_STDC17are added to support using that new value with the new options. (If the standard ends up being published in 2018 and being known asC18, option aliases can be added. Note however that-std=iso9899:199409corresponds to a__STDC_VERSION__value rather than a publication date.)(There are a couple of DR resolutions needing implementing in GCC, but that's independent of the new options.)
So, there are no new features included in C17.
The Cppreference (History of C) says:
Future development
C17 Next minor C language standard revision, will include all accepted C11 defect reports, but no new features.
UPDATE:
- 2018: C17 (ISO/IEC 9899:2018) (ISO Store) (Final draft) Includes the deprecation of
ATOMIC_VAR_INITand the fixes to the following defect reports:[DR 400], [DR 401], [DR 402], [DR 403], [DR 404], [DR 405], [DR 406], [DR 407], [DR 410], [DR 412], [DR 414], [DR 415], [DR 416], [DR 417], [DR 419], [DR 423], [DR 426], [DR 428], [DR 429], [DR 430], [DR 431], [DR 433], [DR 434], [DR 436], [DR 437], [DR 438], [DR 439], [DR 441], [DR 444], [DR 445], [DR 447], [DR 448], [DR 450], [DR 452], [DR 453], [DR 457], [DR 458], [DR 459], [DR 460], [DR 462], [DR 464], [DR 465], [DR 468], [DR 470], [DR 471], [DR 472], [DR 473], [DR 475], [DR 477], [DR 480], [DR 481], [DR 485], [DR 487], [DR 491]
ATOMIC_VAR_INIT is no more mandatory for the initialization of atomic variables. Plain normal initialization suffices.
Nov 28, 2017 at 13:12
struct foo {int x;} s = {0}; s.x = 3; would write the storage associated with a struct foo using an lvalue of type int, but int is not one of the lvalue types that may be used to access a struct foo.
C17 is a “bugfix release” of the C standard how "M.S Chaudhari" noticed. However, there is very useful information prepared by Jens Gustedt the author of "Modern C" book.
He identified the following list of changes in C17 compared to C11:
atomics: initialization (7.17.2, 7.31.8), coherence requirements (5.1.2.4), fences (7.17.3 p11), functions or macros (7.17.1 p6), lockfree depends on type (7.17.5 p3), compare exchange compares memory and not value (7.17.7.3), atomic_flag (7.17.18).
threads: spurious failures (7.26.3.5 p2, 7.26.3.6 p2, 7.26.4.5 p3), synchronization (7.26.4 p1), thread specific storage (
tss_t) and thread exit (7.26.5 p3, 7.26.5.5, 7.26.6)alignment: fundamental alignment (6.2.8),
_Alignas(6.7.5),aligned_alloc(7.22.3.1)sequence points: full expressions (6.8 p4), full declarators (6.7..6 p3)
infinite loops (6.8.5 p6)
reserved identifiers (7.1.3)
domain or range errors (7.12.1),
ilogb,erfc,lgamma.underspecification of
clock(7.27.2.1)underspecification of
reallocfor size 0 (7.22.3.5)Annex F:
FLT_ROUNDS(F.2 p1)Annex K:
tmpnam_s,snprintf_s,sprintf_s,vsprintf_s,get_s,mbstowcs_s,wcstombs_s,snwprintf_s,swprintf_s,vsnwprintf_s,vswprint_s,mbsrtowcs_s,wcsrtombs_s.
Link to the main page C17.
Also, this content will be updated by Jens you can follow to update
here Jeans Gustedt Blog.
P.S: before posting all this stuff I received approval from the author.
