>What is "full C" if not the language defined by the ANSI/ISO standard?

        In my experience, there is a distinction between 'small-C',
        'K&R C', and 'ANSI C'.

        The 'small-C' compilers are usually targetted to specific micros
        and implement (sometimes highly restricted) subsets of 'full-C',
        by which is normally meant 'K&R C'.

        The 'small-C' designation (and the consequential 'full-C' and
        'tiny-C' labels) largely arose from the articles published in
        the late seventies and early eighties by various computer
        magazines (most notably 'Dr. Dobbs'), which detailed the
        implementation of various C compilers.

        Note that 'ANSI C' is a nineties phenomenon.  In a few years
        (when us old programmers die out) the designation 'full-C'
        will become synonomous with 'ANSI C', and K&R will be the
        stuff of legend.

___Bob