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From: Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: portable malloc
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:42:09 +0000
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On 22/10/2024 00:17, 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.

One of the other groups I'm following just for the hell of it is 
comp.os.cpm/ I'm pretty sure you don't get POSIX in your 64kb (max).

"cannot be a _truly_ portable" is what I meant. Portable to most machine 
is easy - just write for Windows. POSIX will give you a larger subset - 
but still a subset.

Andy