C11 (C1X) standard released

On December 19, 2011, the International Organization for Standardization ISO announced the release of the C standard - ISO / IEC 9899: 2011 (previously informally known as C1X).

Major changes from C99:

• Data alignment
• _Noreturn function specifier
• Type-generic expressions using the _Generic keyword
• Multithreading support
• Improved Unicode Support
• The gets function has been deprecated and replaced by gets_s
• Static Assertions (Assertions)
• Quick_exit function
• Macros for creating complex numbers

Partial support for the functions of the new standard is available in the GCC and Clang compilers .
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UPD:
The final version of the standard, as usual, is not in the public domain, but you can download the latest draft