C11

ISO/IEC 9899:2011 , a.k.a. C11 .

Contents 1 New language features 1.1 Feature test macros for optional features 2 New library features 2.1 New headers 2.2 Library features 3 Obsolete features 3.1 Removed features 4 Defect reports 5 Compiler support

New language features

• Multithreaded environments
  • Atomic objects ( _Atomic )
  • Thread local storage ( _Thread_local )
• Enhanced alignment support
  • Alignment query ( _Alignof )
  • Alignment strengthening ( _Alignas )
  • Over-aligned types
• Unicode support
  • u / U character constants
  • u8 / u / U string literals
• Generic selection expressions ( _Generic )
• Non-returning functions ( _Noreturn )
• Anonymous struct and union members
• Fine-grained evaluation order
• Extending the lifetime of temporary objects
• _Static_assert
• Analyzability

Feature test macros for optional features

• __STDC_ANALYZABLE__
  • Indicates analyzability is supported.
• __STDC_LIB_EXT1__
  • Indicates bounds checking functions are supported.
• __STDC_NO_ATOMICS__
  • Indicates atomic objects and the atomic operation library are not supported.
• __STDC_NO_COMPLEX__
  • Indicates complex types and the complex math functions are not supported.

  These features were mandatory in C99.

• __STDC_NO_THREADS__
  • Indicates thread local storage and the thread support library are not supported.
• __STDC_NO_VLA__
  • Indicates variable length arrays and variably modified types are not supported.

  These features were mandatory in C99.

New library features

New headers

• <stdalign.h>
• <stdatomic.h>
• <stdnoreturn.h>
• <threads.h>
• <uchar.h>

Library features

• Concurrency support library
• aligned_alloc()
• UTF-16/32 type aliases
  • char16_t
  • char32_t
• UTF-16/32 conversion functions
  • mbrtoc16()
  • mbrtoc32()
  • c16rtomb()
  • c32rtomb()
• quick_exit
• at_quick_exit
• Exclusive modes of fopen() and freopen() ( "x" )
• Bounds checking functions
• timespec
• timespec_get()
• CMPLX(F|L)?
• New numeric limit macros
  • (FLT|DBL|LDBL)_DECIMAL_DIG
  • (FLT|DBL|LDBL)_TRUE_MIN
  • (FLT|DBL|LDBL)_HAS_SUBNORM
• Thread local errno

Obsolete features

Removed features

• gets()

Defect reports

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Compiler support

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