5. Environment

• 5.1 Conceptual models
  • 5.1.1 Translation environment
  • 5.1.2 Execution environments
• 5.2 Environmental considerations
  • 5.2.1 Character sets
  • 5.2.2 Character display semantics
  • 5.2.3 Signals and interrupts
  • 5.2.4 Environmental limits

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An implementation translates C source files and executes C programs in two data- processing-system environments, which will be called the translation environment and the execution environment in this International Standard. Their characteristics define and constrain the results of executing conforming C programs constructed according to the syntactic and semantic rules for conforming implementations.

Forward References

In this clause, only a few of many possible forward references have been noted.