ISO International Standard

1 This document specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C

programming language.1) It specifies

– the representation of C programs;

– the syntax and constraints of the C language;

– the semantic rules for interpreting C programs;

– the representation of input data to be processed by C programs;

– the representation of output data produced by C programs;

– the restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming implementation of C.

2 This document does not specify

– the mechanism by which C programs are transformed for use by a data-processing system;

– the mechanism by which C programs are invoked for use by a data-processing system;

– the mechanism by which input data are transformed for use by a C program;

– the mechanism by which output data are transformed after being produced by a C program;

– the size or complexity of a program and its data that will exceed the capacity of any specific

data-processing system or the capacity of a particular processor;

– all minimal requirements of a data-processing system that is capable of supporting a conforming

implementation.