cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) (08/05/88)
Some items in this news group or comp.lang.c have
alluded to a distinction made in the draft
ANSI standard for C between "free-standing" and "hosted" implementations of C.
What does this mean? Anyone who does is invited to send me mail or submit
another item of news --- whichever you think is better.
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J. M. Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary),
Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
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It helps if you spell "cudat" in lower case.henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (08/07/88)
In article <672@sol.warwick.ac.uk> cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) writes: >Some items in this news group or comp.lang.c have >alluded to a distinction made in the draft >ANSI standard for C between "free-standing" and "hosted" implementations of C. > >What does this mean? ... "Hosted" means the sort of environment that people are used to in Unix, with a library, a file system, etc etc. "Free-standing" means the sort of thing which arises when you are writing code to be put into ROM in, say, a micro- controlled toaster: no libraries except what you bring with you, no files, non-standard program startup methods, etc. The distinction comes up because X3J11 wants to mandate the availability of things like stdio in hosted implementations without making it impossible to use ANSI C for programming a toaster. -- MSDOS is not dead, it just | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology smells that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu