JTC1/SC22/WG14 N625

				
				Document number: WG14 N625 (X3J11 96-089)

Title:	Status of approved proposals for C9X (Post-Toronto)
Author: Douglas Walls
Date:	November 4, 1996

Below find the status of approved proposals for inclusion in C9X, i.e.
proposals at Stages 3-6.  The proposal numbers represent the last
papers seen by the committee on this proposal.  The dates represent the
meeting date at which the proposal was approved.  See the minutes of
that meeting for full details.  The current C9X draft as of the Toronto
(10/96) meeting is draft 6.

Proposals approved and already included in C9X draft 6, stage 5:

  N448 (10/95) Restricted pointers
  N472 (10/95) Designated initializers
  N548 (2/96)  Empty arguments in macro replacement
  N401 (2/96)  <inttypes.h>

Proposals approved for inclusion into the C9X draft, stage 4:

  N522 (2/96)  Tag compatibility
		 Final words as seen by the full committee approved by
		 the review committee.  This was added to C9X draft 7.

  N505 (6/96)  Make qualifiers idempotent
		 Final words for this proposal appear in the 6/96
		 Amsterdam meeting minutes, N615.

  N602 (10/96) <inttypes.h> strtoimax() & strtoumax() functions
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N617 (10/96) Signed integer division
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N601 (10/96) long long int
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N595 (10/96) Floating Point C Extensions
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N596 (10/96) Complex C Extensions,  w/Imaginary types in an informative Annex
		 Approved as amend by N620, see 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N593 (10/96) New Form of Pragma

  N599 (10/96) Restricted pointer library changes
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N590 (10/96) Translation Limits
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N611 (10/96) Addition of predefined identifier __func__
                 Approved with changes detailed in the 10/96 Toronto minutes.

  N568 (10/96) Stringizing empty pp_token sequences

  N579 (10/96) Add to translation phase 4 "All preprocessing directives
		 are then deleteted".  Final words for this change
		 appear in the 10/96 Toronto meeting minutes.

Proposals principally approved, final wording to be drafted by review
committee, stage 3:

  N496 (2/96)  Compound Literals
		 Reviewed and approved by review committee.
		 Final wording should appear in mailing before 2/97 (Kona).

  N481 (2/96)  // comments
		 Review committee has yet to see any words.  Final words
		 need to come back to the full committee for approval to
		 stage 4.

  N504 (6/96)  Make va_list and fpos_t object types
		 Review committee waiting on Clive for final wording.

  N594 (10/96) VLA's  -  N519 was reassigned to stage 3 at 6/96
		 Amsterdam meeting.  Tom is resubmitting entire proposal
		 to fix problems with sequence points in declarators,
		 paper N594.  At 10/96 Toronto meeting a new review
		 committee was assigned to help Tom come up with final
		 wording.

  N614 (10/96) Alternative for sprintf

  N580/N581 (10/96) Varargs for function-like macros

Reminder of what the stages mean, the stages only give the state the
proposal is in.  Proposals can skip stages.  This is adapted from N556
and N585 as accepted at the June 96, Amsterdam meeting:

Stage 1 = proposal w/o technical details requesting interest from WG14
          for development of a technical proposal.

Stage 2 = technical proposal, ready for consideration by WG14.

Stage 3 = principally accepted, for inclusion into C9X.  At this stage
          the exact C9X changes must be drafted and edited by the
          review committee.  After review, the final C9X changes are
          to be included in a mailing for final approval by WG14 for
          inclusion into the C9X draft.

Stage 4 = accepted by WG14 for inclusion as is into C9X.  The proposal
          contains the specific editing instructions to change the C9X
	  draft, and is ready to be included in the next C9X draft.

Stage 5 = changes applied to the latest C9X draft.

Stage 6 = verified by the review committee as being correctly applied
	  in the C9X draft.