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Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support

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Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
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> Op 15-Jan-16 om 8:07 PM schreef Bo Persson:
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>> On 2016-01-05 20:16, Ian Collins wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Has there ever been a move to formally identify standard library
>>> headers that don't require run time (especially dynamic allocation)
>>> support?  An obvious example would be <array>.
>>>
>>> The reason I ask is to make at least a subset of the standard library
>>> available to smaller embedded projects.
>>> 
>>>
>>>
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>> No, I don't think so.
>>
>> The standards committee is, in general, not very fond of defining
>> language subsets. They strongly prefer compilers to implement the
>> whole language.
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> The question wass not about a compiler implementing a subset, but
> about library functions (or headers, as groups of functions) that do
> not need a particular feature that is incompatible with a specialized
> use, like heap and execptions (and maybe RTTO) not being compatible
> with (very) small micro-controllers.


Not necessarily small, my application was for 32 bit ARM.

A ban on dynamic memory is usage is common in embedded systems.  This
is a big niche!


-- 
Ian Collins


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Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Ian Collins <ian-news@this.is.invalid> - 2016-01-05 13:16 -0600
  Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Martin Bonner <martinfrompi@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-15 13:07 -0600
  Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Bo Persson <bop@gmb.dk> - 2016-01-15 13:07 -0600
    Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2016-02-08 11:27 -0600
    Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> - 2016-02-08 11:27 -0600
      Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Ian Collins <ian-news@this.is.invalid> - 2016-02-20 15:18 -0600
  Re: Specifying standard headers that don't require run time support Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-04-01 19:07 -0600

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