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Re:What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? by shakna on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:40AM (#14612545)
It's the way ISO does things.

C11 is here. [0]

However, the working draft immediately before is open. In this case, C1X is here [1].

[0] https://www.iso.org/standard/57853.html

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

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Re:What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? by mort96 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @06:26PM (#14615778)
So... no ISO standard is really free or open, just drafts which may or may not be similar? That sounds kind of shitty.
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Re:What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face? by shakna on Thursday June 22, 2017 @06:32PM (#14615815)
I think ISO would say the standard is open, but not free. You're not required to be a member of a working group to access the final standard, you just have to buy the book.

Which has created a history of languages that usually follow the standard quite strictly.

(Though, I do personally despise the non-free aspect, I can sort of understand it, considering history and the effort to standardise).

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