The C99 standard introduces several new library features of interest to programmers, including:
Some features similar to extensions to the C90 standard libraries offered in UNIX standard libraries, for example, the
snprintffamily of functions.Some entirely new library features, for example, the standardized floating-point environment offered in
<fenv.h>.New libraries, and new macros and functions for existing C90 libraries.
A selection of new features in C99 that might be of interest to developers using them for the first time are documented.
Note
C90 is compatible with Standard C++ in the sense that the language specified by the standard is a subset of C++, except for a few special cases. New features in the C99 standard mean that C99 is no longer compatible with C++ in this sense.
Many library features that are new to C99 are available in
C90 and C++. Some require macros such as USE_C99_ALL or USE_C99_MATH to
be defined before the #include.
See also
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