Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudat From: cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Free-standing vs. hosted implementations Message-ID: <672@sol.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 5 Aug 88 09:43:51 GMT Reply-To: cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 14 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. -- J. M. Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary), Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL On JANET: cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU (in the U.K.) From BITNET: cudat@CU.WARWICK.AC.UK From ARPAnet: try cudat%cu.warwick.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu (untested) On Usenet: ...!ihnp4!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudat It helps if you spell "cudat" in lower case.