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  69. <h2 class="chapter">4 C Implementation-Defined Behavior</h2>
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  71. <p>A conforming implementation of ISO C is required to document its
  72. choice of behavior in each of the areas that are designated
  73. &ldquo;implementation defined&rdquo;. The following lists all such areas,
  74. along with the section numbers from the ISO/IEC 9899:1990, ISO/IEC
  75. 9899:1999 and ISO/IEC 9899:2011 standards. Some areas are only
  76. implementation-defined in one version of the standard.
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  78. <p>Some choices depend on the externally determined ABI for the platform
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  83. See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Implementation_002ddefined-behavior.html#Implementation_002ddefined-behavior">Implementation-defined
  84. behavior</a> in <cite>The C Preprocessor</cite>. Some choices are made by the
  85. library and operating system (or other environment when compiling for
  86. a freestanding environment); refer to their documentation for details.
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