Re: Re: Limitations of standard C, formal interfaces, and other musings. Was: ms-level timings

[Brian Hook <hook_l@...>]

One thing to keep in mind is that the C standard differentiates 
between a "hosted" and a "freestanding" implementation.  You can stil 
be compliant C and lack things like stdio, etc.  It's effectively just 
the language and some predefined symbols at that point.  I'm not sure 
if Lua would run in such an environment, but I don't see why it 
couldn't.

Given this, the points about os.time() being potentially unsupported 
are both completely spot on and irrelevant -- spot on because it might 
not be there, and irrelevant because if it's not, there might be other 
major issues as well.

Brian