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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: parsing the format string at compile time...
Message-ID: <11297@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:57:07 GMT
References: <705@nixbur.UUCP> <6737@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1856@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1856@xyzzy.UUCP> meissner@tiktok.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>The ANSI standard gives explicit license for implementations
>to 'know' about any of the standard functions in section 4.

Just to make sure nobody misunderstands, that's true for HOSTED implementations
only.  Standalone implementations do NOT know about the Section 4 functions.

Hosted implementations are the ones that most programmers will care about.
Standalone implementations are of interest for imbedded system and operating
system programmers (to take the most obvious examples).