Free-standing vs. hosted implementations

[J M Hicks]

Some items in this news group or comp.lang.c have
alluded to a distinction made in the draft
ANSI standard for C between "free-standing" and "hosted" implementations of C.

What does this mean?  Anyone who does is invited to send me mail or submit
another item of news --- whichever you think is better.
--
J. M. Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary),
Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
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