Austin Group Liaison Report

WG 14 Document number	N1407
Date	2009-09-28
Project	Programming Language C
Reference	ISO/IEC IS 9899:1999
Reply to	Nick Stoughton
	USENIX Association
	nick@usenix.org

Aardvark Mk III

The Austin Group has recently introduced a new defect tracking and management system, replacing the old "aardvark" system. Access to this system is freely available to all interested parties, and the Austin Group invites all members of WG 14 to sign up and comment on issues of mutual interest. The system can be found at http://austingroupbugs.net.

Defects may be assigned tags, and the tag "c99" has been reserved for any defect reported that affects a shared interface.

At this point, there are 8 defects with the c99 tag:

Issue Number Description WG 14 Action Expected?

73 wmemcmp C conflict? Yes

74 Pointer Types Problem No

86 asctime rationale No

88 wcrtomb in wchar.h No

90 fscanf stds contradiction Yes

105 errno change on success Yes?

109 mblen() not thread-safe Future

110 memchr input process order Yes?

148 unclear return value description No

Issue Number	Description	WG 14 Action Expected?
73	wmemcmp C conflict?	Yes
74	Pointer Types Problem	No
86	asctime rationale	No
88	wcrtomb in wchar.h	No
90	fscanf stds contradiction	Yes
105	errno change on success	Yes?
109	mblen() not thread-safe	Future
110	memchr input process order	Yes?
148	unclear return value description	No

Issues marked as not expecting any action from WG 14 are for information only. Others either are blocked in the Austin Group awaiting WG 14 action (73), or indicate a direction that WG 14 should be aware of during its revision process.