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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:37:39 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Russell Turpin wrote:

> Adam Beberg:
> >Considering 90% of the fake job posting I see are for embedded systems or
> >device drivers - C still rules the world.
>
> There is a lot of C++ in the embedded world. With static object
> allocation and a few other programming techniques, performance
> differences disappear, but C++ gives a boost in development and
> maintainability.

Agreed, not much difference there. With C it just doesnt seem as wrong to
be crawling around in registers and things. Quite frankly you cant fit
_that_ big of a project into a 32K ROM, so large project issues dont matter
as much in the embedded world.

And in the realtime space, or when you have data coming in at 2Gbit/sec
[fibrechannel], every cycle DOES count.

> The real issue is compiler availability. Almost every embedded platform
> has C cross-compilers. Many have C++ compilers. But there is still a
> range of platforms that have the first but not the second. Or at least,
> that was the story a few years ago.

Definately still very very true. C++ compilers are still a rarity.


- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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