[H-GEN] C/C++ Reference Manual

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Greg Black wrote:

> Both languages are the subject of ISO standards; and those are
> the only reliable references, although a tiny subset of the
> available books have some reference material that is usable.

Oh, and they cost more than you will pay for 3 good books, and that's for
the PDF, if you want a dead tree you'll have to pay more.  The money goes
to the comittee who use it to throw keg parties and occasionally add
completely useless and annoying features to the language that no-one uses
for years and years and hardly ever get implemented in more than 1% of the
publically available compilers.

At this point I'd like to mention that Plum Hall (http://www.plumhall.com)
make the most comprehensive C and C++ test suites that anyone who is
implementing a compiler for these languages will want to purchase if they
want their compiler to have any credibility at all (that said, no-one has
ever run them against gcc, to my knowledge).  These test suites cost
between $20,000 and $25,000 each.  Plum Hall is an active member on the
comittee.

Trent


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