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- Subject: Re: Re: Limitations of standard C, formal interfaces, and other musings. Was: ms-level timings
- From: Brian Hook <hook_l@...>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:46:20 -0400
One thing to keep in mind is that the C standard differentiates
between a "hosted" and a "freestanding" implementation. You can stil
be compliant C and lack things like stdio, etc. It's effectively just
the language and some predefined symbols at that point. I'm not sure
if Lua would run in such an environment, but I don't see why it
couldn't.
Given this, the points about os.time() being potentially unsupported
are both completely spot on and irrelevant -- spot on because it might
not be there, and irrelevant because if it's not, there might be other
major issues as well.
Brian