C99 library support in Visual Studio 2013

Pat Brenner MSFT

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the C99 support added to the C run-time library in Visual Studio 2013.

To summarize, we added declarations and implementations for missing functions in the following headers: math.h, ctype.h, wctype.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, and wchar.h. We also added the new headers complex.h, stdbool.h, fenv.h, and inttypes.h, and added the implementations for all the functions declared in them. In addition, we added the new C++ wrapper headers (ccomplex, cfenv, cinttypes, ctgmath) and updated a number of others (ccomplex, cctype, clocale, cmath, cstdint, cstdio, cstring, cwchar, and cwctype).

Most of this work (all the C headers except stdbool.h and fenv.h) was done in time for the Visual Studio 2013 Preview release and is available with it, but the remainder (stdbool.h, fenv.h and the C++ wrapper headers) has been done for Visual Studio 2013 RTM and will be available with that release.

In more detail, these are the declarations and implementations we added, grouped by the headers that declare them:

  • math.h: 
    • float_t, double_t, fpclassify, isfinite isinf, isnan, isnormal, signbit
    • HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL, INFINITY, NAN, MATH_ERRNO, MATH_ERREXCEPT
    • FP_INFINITE, FP_NAN, FP_NORMAL, FP_SUBNORMAL, FP_ZERO, FP_ILOGB0, FP_ILOGBNAN
    • acosh, acoshf, acoshl, asinh, asinhf, asinhl, atanh, atanhf, atanhl
    • exp2, exp2f, exp2l, expm1, expm1f, expm1l
    • ilogb, ilogbf, ilogbl, logb, logbf, logbl, log1p, log1pf, log1pl, log2, log2f, log2l
    • scalbn, scalbnf, scalbnl, scalbln, scalblnf, scalblnl
    • cbrt, cbrtf, cbrtl, erf, erff, erfl, erfc, erfcf, erfcl
    • lgamma, lgammaf, lgammal, tgamma, tgammaf, tgammal
    • nearbyint, nearbyintf, nearbyintl, nan, nanf, nanl
    • rint, rintf, rintl, lrint, lrintf, lrintl, llrint, llrintf, llrintl
    • round, roundf, roundl, lround, lroundf, lroundl, llround, llroundf, llroundl
    • trunc, truncf, truncl, remainder, remainderf, remainder, remquo, remquof, remquol
    • nextafter, nextafterf, nextafterl, nexttoward, nexttowardf, nexttowardl
    • fdim, fdimf, fdiml, fmax, fmaxf, fmaxl, fmin, fminf, fminl, fma, fmaf, fmal
  • complex.h: 
    • cacos, cacosf, cacosl, casin, casinf, casinl, catan, catanf, catanl
    • ccos, ccosf, ccosl, csin, csinf, csinl, ctan, ctanf, ctanl
    • cacosh, cacoshf, cacoshl, casinh, casinhf, casinhl, catanh, catanhf, catanhl
    • ccosh, ccoshf, ccoshl, csinh, csinhf, csinhl, ctanh, ctanhf, ctanhl
    • cexp, cexpf, cexpl, clog, clogf, clogl, cabs, cabsf, cabsl
    • cpow, cpowf, cpowl, csqrt, csqrtf, csqrtl, carg, cargf, cargl
    • cimag, cimagf, cimagl, conj, conjf, conjl, cproj, cprojf, cprojl, creal, crealf, creall
  • fenv.h: 
    • fegetenv, fesetenv, feupdateenv, fegetexceptflag, fesetexceptflag
    • feclearexcept, feholdexcept, fetestexcept, feraiseexcept
  • inttypes.h:
    • PRIi8, PRIi16, PRIi32, PRIi64, PRIiMAX, PRIiPTR, PRIiLEAST8, PRIiLEAST16, PRIiLEAST32, PRIiLEAST64, PRIiFAST8, PRIiFAST16, PRIiFAST32, PRIiFAST64
    • PRIo8, PRIo16, PRIo32, PRIo64, PRIoMAX, PRIoPTR, PRIoLEAST8, PRIoLEAST16, PRIoLEAST32, PRIoLEAST64, PRIoFAST8, PRIoFAST16, PRIoFAST32, PRIoFAST64
    • PRIu8, PRIu16, PRIu32, PRIu64, PRIuMAX, PRIuPTR, PRIuLEAST8, PRIuLEAST16, PRIuLEAST32, PRIuLEAST64, PRIuFAST8, PRIuFAST16, PRIuFAST32, PRIuFAST64
    • PRIx8, PRIx16, PRIx32, PRIx64, PRIxMAX, PRIxPTR, PRIxLEAST8, PRIxLEAST16, PRIxLEAST32, PRIxLEAST64, PRIxFAST8, PRIxFAST16, PRIxFAST32, PRIxFAST64
    • PRIX8, PRIX16, PRIX32, PRIX64, PRIXMAX, PRIXPTR, PRIXLEAST8, PRIXLEAST16, PRIXLEAST32, PRIXLEAST64, PRIXFAST8, PRIXFAST16, PRIXFAST32, PRIXFAST64
    • SCNd8, SCNd16, SCNd32, SCNd64, SCNdMAX, SCNdPTR, SCNdLEAST8, SCNdLEAST16, SCNdLEAST32, SCNdLEAST64, SCNdFAST8, SCNdFAST16, SCNdFAST32, SCNdFAST64
    • SCNi8, SCNi16, SCNi32, SCNi64, SCNiMAX, SCNiPTR, SCNiLEAST8, SCNiLEAST16, SCNiLEAST32, SCNiLEAST64, SCNiFAST8, SCNiFAST16, SCNiFAST32, SCNiFAST64
    • SCNo8, SCNo16, SCNo32, SCNo64, SCNoMAX, SCNoPTR, SCNoLEAST8, SCNoLEAST16, SCNoLEAST32, SCNoLEAST64, SCNoFAST8, SCNoFAST16, SCNoFAST32, SCNoFAST64
    • SCNu8, SCNu16, SCNu32, SCNu64, SCNuMAX, SCNuPTR, SCNuLEAST8, SCNuLEAST16, SCNuLEAST32, SCNuLEAST64, SCNuFAST8, SCNuFAST16, SCNuFAST32, SCNuFAST64
    • SCNx8, SCNx16, SCNx32, SCNx64, SCNxMAX, SCNxPTR, SCNxLEAST8, SCNxLEAST16, SCNxLEAST32, SCNxLEAST64, SCNxFAST8, SCNxFAST16, SCNxFAST32, SCNxFAST64
    • SCNX8, SCNX16, SCNX32, SCNX64, SCNXMAX, SCNXPTR, SCNXLEAST8, SCNXLEAST16, SCNXLEAST32, SCNXLEAST64, SCNXFAST8, SCNXFAST16, SCNXFAST32, SCNXFAST64
    • imaxabs, imaxdiv, strtoimax, strtoumax, wcstoimax, wcstoumax
  • ctype.h
    • isblank
  • wctype.h
    • iswblank
  • float.h
    • DECIMAL_DIG, FLT_EVAL_METHOD
  • stdarg.h
    • va_copy
  • stdbool.h
    • bool, true, false, __bool_true_false_are_defined
  • stdio.h
    • vscanf, vfscanf, vsscanf
  • stdlib.h
    • atoll, strtof, strtold, strtoll, strtoull
  • wchar.h
    • vwscanf, vfwscanf, vswscanf, wcstof, wcstold, wcstoll, wcstoull

We know that this is not complete support for the C99 library functions. To the best of our understanding, the missing pieces are these:

  • The tgmath.h header is missing. C compiler support is needed for this header.
    • Note that the ctgmath header was added—this is possible because that header does not require the tgmath.h header—only the ccomplex and cmath headers.
  • The uchar.h header is missing. This is from the C Unicode TR.
  • Several format specifiers in the printf family are not yet supported.
  • The snprintf and snwprintf functions are missing from stdio.h and wchar.h.

I hope you find this information useful. We did all that we had time for, while trying to prioritize those functions we thought most important.

Pat Brenner, Visual C++ Libraries Development Team

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