In the C standard, a standalone implementation doesn’t have to provide all of the library functions that a hosted implementation has to provide. The C standard doesn’t care about embedded, but vendors of embedded systems usually provide standalone implementations with whatever amount of libraries they’re willing to provide.
C is a widely used general purpose high level programming language mainly intended for system programming.
Embedded C is an extension to C programming language that provides support for developing efficient programs for embedded devices.It is not a part of the C language
You can also refer to the articles below:
- Difference between C and Embedded C
- Embedded C
- ISO/IEC J TC1 SC22 WG14 N1169