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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: portable malloc
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:26:06 -0400
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:09:49 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:52:59 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:17:10 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:51:30 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Because some implementations will require communication with the OS
>>>> there cannot be a truly portable malloc.
>>>
>>> There can if you have a portable OS API. The only serious candidate for
>>> that is POSIX.
>> 
>> POSIX is an environment not an OS.
>
>Guess what the “OS” part of “POSIX” stands for.

It's still an just environment - POSIX defines only an interface, not
an implementation.