Re: 80286 protected mode

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:26:29 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:

There is an advantage to the C approach of separating out some
facilities and supplying them only in the standard library.

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It goes a bit further: for a general purpose language, any existing
functionality that cannot be written using the language is a sign of
a weakness because it shows that despite being "general purpose" it
fails to cover this specific "purpose".

One of the key ways C got into the minds of programmers was that
one could write stuff like printf() in C and NOT needd to have it
entirely built-into the language.

In an ideal world, it would be better if we could define `malloc` and
`memmove` efficiently in standard C, but at least they can be
implemented in non-standard C.

malloc() used to be std. K&R C--what dropped if from the std ??

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        Stefan