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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: FYI: Embedded C++
Date: 1996/10/29
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Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00
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In the November 1996 Embedded Systems Programming magazine, P. J.
Plauger states that a committee primarily composed of Japanese companies 
(NEC, Toshiba, etc.) is working on the development of a language called 
Embedded C++ to "address the needs of developers who wish to produce 
embedded systems in C++.... The easiest way to describe Embedded C++ as 
a language is in terms of what it doesn't have. The committee began with 
the draft C++ Standard and removed certain features. A feature was a 
candidate for removal for any of several reasons:

"* Exceptions were omitted because of the added runtime overheads in 
calling functions, in some cases even when code makes no direct use of 
exceptions

"* Multiple inheritance and virtual base classes were omitted because 
they too add overheads even for code that makes no direct use of these 
features

"* Templates were omitted because of the potential for code explosion

"* Namespaces were omitted because their added complexity does not 
appear to have an adequate payoff in embedded applications

"* Runtime type identification was omitted for much the same reason that 
namespaces were"

Just thought people might be interested. (Did anyone else experience 
deja vu while reading this?)

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