* FYI: Embedded C++
@ 1996-10-29 0:00 Ken Garlington
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
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From: Ken Garlington @ 1996-10-29 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* Re: FYI: Embedded C++
1996-10-29 0:00 FYI: Embedded C++ Ken Garlington
@ 1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
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From: David Emery @ 1996-10-30 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
It's interesting what people consider to be "unnecessary". I guess if
all you do is washing-machine and microwave software, then support for
programming-in-the-large is not that important...
dave
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