On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> Also, from this point of view, could pthreads be considered runtime for C? > > no. then every library/os function ever bolted onto > c would be "part of the c runtime". clearly this isn't > the case and pthreads are not specified in the c standard. > > it might be part of /a/ runtime, but not the c runtime. > > - erik > >
You are right. I suppose in C only the stack space is really needed for function calls and that may be pushing it too.
