Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages (was: Heartbleed)

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2014-04-21, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-04-19, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>> - Representation clauses for device registers (record field selection
>>   rather than bit masks).
>
> Getting rid of C style masks should be a major goal and the above is
> required but not sufficient.
>

That's C style masks for device registers, BTW. There's still a requirement
for masks for general operations.

In addition to your list, there one additional thing I forgot to mention.

I would allow some way of specifying that a struct/record (or some of
it's components) is of a specific endian type and then allowing the compiler
to generate the code itself to handle the big/little endian conversion
as required.

It's absolutely crazy that in 2014 we are still writing code which requires
that knowledge to be manually encoded within the program code itself
(in the form of macros) instead of just placing that information within
the data type which is where it belongs.

Simon.

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