P99 - Preprocessor macros and functions for C99

P99 is a suite of macro and function definitions that ease the programming in modern C, aka C99. By using new tools from C99 we implement default arguments for functions, scope bound resource management, transparent allocation and initialization, ...

By using special features of some compilers and operating systems, we also are able to provide an emulation of a large part of the new C standard, C11.

P99 heavily depends on a decent support for C99 of compilers. We have set up a test program that may be used as a first indication if a compiler is compatible with that. Please see the directory c99-conformance for some results of such tests.

If you are new to P99 you might want to have a look at the first chapters of the Reference Manual or read the online documentation.

Name	Last modified	Size	Description

c99-conformance/	12-Feb-2013 10:53	-	C99 conformance tests
defects-and-improvements/	08-Feb-2013 01:20	-	C11 defect reports and feature requests
p99-html/	14-Nov-2013 13:49	-	P99 code documentation
versions/	26-Dec-2013 23:04	-	previous versions
p99-html.tgz	26-Dec-2013 22:30	21M	P99 code documentation
p99-html.zip	26-Dec-2013 22:30	24M	P99 code documentation
p99-refman.pdf	26-Dec-2013 22:30	9.0M	reference manual
p99.tgz	26-Dec-2013 22:29	339K	current version
p99.zip	26-Dec-2013 22:29	396K	current version

The code of P99 should be usable and hopefully also useful. In contrast to that P99 as a project is only in its boot phase, so bare with me if you are missing documentation, examples, and any other kind of resources. The best to improve things is to let me know, there is my mailing address on the bottom of this page and there is now also a help forum. Many information will currently be made public via my blog: Jens Gustedt's Blog.

But there is also some project infrastructure that is set up on the INRIA gforge site. In particular you may have anonymous access to the git repository, there.

P99 has been tested on combinations of the following:

OS	variant	processor	compiler	remarks
Linux	ubuntu 9.04/Gnu LibC	x86_64	gcc 4.1 - 4.2	work arround for `inline`
			gcc 4.3 - 4.7
			clang 2.8	VLA crashes the compiler
			clang 2.9	minor incompatibility for `##` token
			clang 3.0	work around from some compound literals
			clang 3.2	has `_Generic`
			opencc 4.2	work arround for `inline`
			icc 12.0.0	work arround for `inline`
			TinyC	preprocessor not conforming
			pcc	compiler crashes
		i686	gcc 4.3 - 4.6
	ubuntu 9.04/musl	x86_64	gcc 4.4
	maemo	arm	gcc 4.2	work arround for `inline`
	redhat 5.0	ia64	icc 4.1.2	work arround for `inline`
BSD	OS X	x86_64	gcc 4.2.1	work arround for `inline`
FreeBSD	7.2-RELEASE-p7	amd64	gcc 4.2.1	work arround for `inline`

P99 is automatically tested on the Continuous Integration platform of Inria after all git version changes. For the moment this includes two processors in the Intel family, i386 and amd64, gcc different version and clang, on Ubuntu Linux with glib or with musl. The current status is

Jens Gustedt