Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ouch. They actually expect you to be able to do anything useful without > the other headers?
> It might actually be easier to just implement the headers ourselves on > platforms that don't have them... The provisions for free-standing implementations in the C standard are primarily aimed at people using C as portable assembler for writing embedded applications. Viewed in that light, it makes sense that your microwave may not have stdio. :) The idea is to define a subset of C that can still be called C that doesn't include all of the extra stuff that's unnecessary when all you're ever doing is reading and writing bytes from special memory locations. I think it's a real mistake for Microsoft to not provide a hosted implementation for something like WinCE. But that's just random complaining; unfortunately, one can't solve portability routines by expressing one's opinion that the decisions various platforms made were stupid. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
