Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

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33. Introduction to C11 Standard

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

The C11 standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 9899:2011, was a C standard adopted in late 2011. The C11 standard replaced the C99 standard and was superseded by C17. C11 introduces new features to the C language and C standard library and modifies a few existing ones. Here, we discuss some of the notable features.

33.1 _Static_assert

The _Static_assert performs assertion during compile time, before our program starts. The static assertion has the following syntax:

_Static_assert(expression, message);

The static assertion evaluates the constant expression during compile ...