Re: Character display

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From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject	Re: Character display
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David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> I can see that there is a confusion about the word free-standing. There
> is an ordinary meaning - standing by itself - and there is a technical
> maning - not hosted (not using the standrad library - apart from some
> physical limiatation macros). I will use "unhosted" to mean what the
> Standard calls "free-standing". 

The standard uses the term "freestanding implementation".  Since this is
comp.lang.c, please use the terms defined by the standard, the way the
standard defines them, if you're interested in communicating.

[...]
> If you write a GUI text editor you will find it hard to use hosted C.
> Gedit, which is a text editor written in C90, if it uses the hosted 
> API uses it so far from the user as to be invisible.  

Presumably it would use functions declared in <stdio.h> to read and
write text files, in <stdlib.h> to allocate and deallocate memory, in
<string.h> for string handling, in <time.h> if it needs to know the
current time, and so forth.  Certainly it would have to use some
non-standard functions; most programs do.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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Character display David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 12:51 -0700
  Re: Character display James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-17 16:20 -0400
    Re: Character display David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 18:57 -0700
      Re: Character display James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-17 23:22 -0400
      Re: Character display Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-18 10:18 -0700
  Re: Character display Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-17 13:44 -0700
    Re: Character display David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 19:06 -0700
      Re: Character display Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-17 21:33 -0700
      Re: Character display Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-18 00:33 -0700
        Re: Character display Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-18 10:09 -0700
        Re: Character display James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-18 13:45 -0400
        Re: Character display David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 18:51 -0700
          Re: Character display Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-18 21:08 -0700
            Re: Character display Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-19 00:33 -0700
              Re: Character display Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-19 17:03 -0500

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