Hope to see an updated edition of "The C programming language" for C99.

pjmlp · on March 13, 2012

I had hoped for it as well, but it might never happen.

Now we have already C11, and AFAIK there isn't a single compiler that fully supports C99, let alone C11.

Then we have companies like Microsoft which nowadays care only about C++, and won't improve the C standard support beyond C89 on their compiler.

octopus · on March 13, 2012

I think gcc and (maybe) clang have good support for C99:

pjmlp · on March 14, 2012

Good support is not 100%.

Plus not all projects are allowed to use gcc or clang.

Case in point, I worked in a project where the UNIX compilers used had to be the standard vendor ones for Aix, HP-UX and Solaris.

luriel · on March 13, 2012

Sadly that is unlikely now that DMR is dead :(

But another collaboration with Rob Pike on a book about Go is likely.