From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Todd Hoff To: brendan@cygnus.com Cc: c++-embedded@cygnus.com Subject: Re: some topics for discussion Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <359483DF.5EFCE935@possibility.com> References: <20676.898898447@lisa.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00014.html Brendan Kehoe wrote: > * what are the primary reasons that many embedded developers tend not to use > C++ for their applications or other programs? It's in large part cultural. I came to the embedded world from writing large apps on workstations. Most of the embedded software people were more hardware oriented. We had very little in common. Fortunately we could divide the work along the lines of hardware/ISR/driver and the rest the software. OO and C++ were seen a slow, bloated, and unecessary. > * if there are ways that exception handling can be used without too much > runtime cost? As exceptions haven't been thread safe so i really haven't had a chance to consider this :-) > * if there are optimizations that could be applied (but aren't yet, or are > only in a limited sense) to compensate for the needs of an RTOS or > similar environment? A big issue is changing configurations on the fly without rebooting. This is very difficult and is very common. ------------------------------------------------------------------ tmh@possibility.com http://www.possibility.com/Tmh Desperate measures require the invention of desperate times. -- Todd Hoff