Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 10:02:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: Leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) Subject: Re: void main Message-ID: <199609050802.KAA00638@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960905055112.00682a34@pacbell.net> from Leonard Chung at "Sep 4, 96 10:51:12 pm"
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As Leonard Chung wrote: > >It violates ANSI when used in a hosted environment. > > What's the difference between a freestanding and hosted environment? From > the wording, I think I have a general idea, but I'm not completely definate. Dunno what's the wording of the standard for this. Anyway, typical freestanding environments are things like a Unix kernel, or a microcontroller program written in C. There's no environment to the C program. In a hosted environment, you launch your C application from with an environment (a shell, a GUI environment etc.). I'm sure Bruce will explain it better. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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