Can Novices Jump Directly in C? (Books)

[Chris Dollin]

mike at bria writes:

   ................................................  To write portable
   code, the use of values.h and sys/types.h is essential, and shouldn't
   be left as an afterthought.

Use "values.h" or "sys/types.h" on *my* machine [*1], and your code won't
compile at all; I have a plain ANSI C compiler, and neither of those names
appear to be in the standard.

Is their general agreement on the contents of these headers, and some formal or
informal method for propagating them? [Or am I unwitting about to start the
Great [Bb]ool{ean} Wars again?]

[*1] An Acorn Archimides (A440) running RISC OS 2.
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