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Comment by CRConrad

10 months ago

> For the purposes of linux kernel, there's essentially a custom superset of C that is defined as "right" for linux kernel

Superset? Or subset? I'd have guessed the latter.

Superset. ANSI/ISO C is not a good language to write a kernel in, because the standards are way more limiting than some people would think - and leaves a lot to implementation.

So it's a superset in terms of what's defined