General conventions and concepts

The first four sections in the standard are dedicated to conventions and concepts. They define types, program start-up and shutdown, memory, and linking. They also outline all of the definitions and keywords that are needed to understand the rest of the specification.

As in the standard C specification, there are a lot of things defined in these sections that are important to system programmers, as they define what the compiler will output when a program is compiled, and how that program will be executed.