22 May
2020
22 May
'20
5:15 p.m.
Doesn't C++ also generate tight code and is fairly close to the metal?
Today C++ is the high performant language for game developers and HFT shops.
But, I never found it on any of these embedded systems, it was straight C.
Tyler
On Fri, May 22, 2020, 14:09 <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Tyler Adams <coppero1237(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, now Im curious about embedded systems. In my
limited experience,
every
"embedded system" I programmed for from
2002-2011 had C as its primary
language. After 2011, I stopped programming embedded systems, so I don't
know after that. Why was C so dominant in this space?
First of all, because C is the (almost) perfect language for embedded
systems - tight code generated, language close to the metal, etc. etc.
Is it because adding
a backend to gcc was free, C was already well known, and C was
sufficiently
performant?
Cygnus Solutions (Hi John!) had a lot to do with this. They specialized
in porting GCC to different processors used in embedded systems and
provided support.
Arnold