Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: What is wrong with malloc? (Was: So You Think You Can Const?) Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:52:12 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: <86jzb584nn.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 20:52:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6e19b66cb0c542b6b8c649f7413a0cd9"; logging-data="3071468"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19r6kVJFjLeGxxpBWgJyhZ7Qtw0LciCMBo=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XQx908ZC7XZMQRAfHqimoAqdEUU= sha1:5GhB6g5/1VNU3AXBa4bN7M9KxOA= Bytes: 1415 Phillip writes: > C89 and C90 are better for 8-bit systems then C99 and newer. Not > that you can't do 8-bit on C99 but it's just not designed as well > for it since C99 assumes you've moved on to at least 16-bit. Which parts of the C99 standard support this assertion?