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Comment by astrange

3 years ago

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.

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icedchai  3 years ago

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

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