sabithpocker

 Profile Answers by sabithpocker 

• Feb 26th, 2008

 

c refers to traditional c developed by dennis ritchie at bell laboratories around 1972 or so, he did it  for unix ofcource.then later problems occured wen c was transplanted to other oses and also ther occured a need to stansardize c ,so the standardizing giant did it and came up with ansi c..which most of us use now.

one easy way to differentiate c and ansi c is using

#if  __STDC__ in your program .__STDC__ is defined in ANSI c by default were its not the case with traditional c .There do exist many other differences.but i think this is inly needed for the time being.

thankks

arun_seth_indore

 Profile Answers by arun_seth_indore 

• Sep 19th, 2009

 

C is designed for UNIX only, which was not supported by other OS, that is why its enhanced version came out named as ANSI C.

Raman Nv

• Aug 9th, 2014

 

According to "The C Programming Language" by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan,

The biggest change between ANSI C and earlier versions is how functions are declared and defined. In the original definition of C, the power function would have been written like this:

Code
 


power(base, n) 


int base, n;


{


   //Function code


}


 


 


//and in ANSI C, the same function would look like:


 


int power(int base, int n)


{


    //Code


}