The C17 Standard

At the time of writing, the C17 standard, officially named ISO/IEC 9899:2018, is the last published C standard. It replaces the C11 standard, does not introduce new features, and fixes defects reported for C11. The __STDC_VERSION__ macro for this standard has the value of 201710L. To compile for a C17 standard, we include the -stdc=17 flag. Example: