Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: But what about kernel printfs?
Message-ID: <7830@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 4 May 88 18:07:01 GMT
References: <12360@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: printf,UNIX,kernel

In article <12360@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>I guess the most portable thing to do would be to replace
>all the printfs (and other routines in the UNIX kernel)
>that clash with the C library with kprintf kexit etc.

One would think that the UNIX kernel would be compiled in what X3J11 has
termed a "freestanding" environment, not a "hosted" environment.  The
freestanding environment does not include <stdio.h>, printf(), etc.