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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...
Date: 1998/05/12
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Craig says

<<As far as defining the OS call interface with C, this seems like a very poor
idea.  The C compiler can make arbitrary and capricious choices on how it
lays out data structures in memory.  The C standard makes no indications
of how a structure is laid out.
>>

The C standard goes as far as it possibly could in defining how data
structures are laid out by default. No other language standard could say
more unless it restricted itself to a subset of available architectures.

As for the statement that any OS is likely to contain some C code at this
stage, that is simply an empirical observation, not a moral judgment!