As of December 2012, the best locations by price for C/C++ standards documents in PDF are:
- C++11 – ISO/IEC 14882:2011: $30 from ansi.org
- C++03 – ISO 14882:2003: $30 from ansi.org
- C11 – ISO/IEC 9899:2011: $30 from ansi.org
- C99 – ISO 9899:1999:
$30 from ansi.orgavailable online, free of charge - C90 – AS 3955-1991: $141 from ansi.org (the Australian version of C90, identical to ISO 9899:1990)
Note that the C90 standard is much more useful than the significantly different C99 standard, since C99 hasn't been widely implemented by compilers.
If you want a hardcopy of the C90 standard for much less money than above, you may be able to find a cheap used copy of Herb Schildt's book The Annotated ANSI Standard at Amazon, contains the actual text of the standard.
As mentioned in several answers here, the draft versions of these standards are freely downloadable (refer to those answers or Google for download locations). However, in my opinion, even though the draft versions might be very close to the final ratified versions of the standards, you should really get a copy of the actual documents - especially if you're planning on quoting them as references. Of course, starving students should go ahead and use the drafts if strapped for cash.
It appears that, if you are willing and able to wait a few months after ratification of a standard, to search for "NCITS/ISO/IEC" instead of "ISO/IEC" when looking for a standard is the key. This way I was able to find the C++11 standard at reasonable price and now the C11 standard. So as an example you search for "NCITS/ISO/IEC 9899:2011" instead of "ISO/IEC 9899:2011" on webstore.ansi.org and will find the reasonably priced version.
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