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astrange on July 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Embed is in C23

Yes, that’s why it only supports specific C compilers.

Anything that includes its own memory allocator (that doesn’t call malloc()) is probably not implemented in standardized C.

icedchai on July 23, 2022 [–]

It’s still “C”, even if it’s a specific dialect. Vendor specific C extensions have existed forever.

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