Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

[Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>]

Bernd Petrovitsch ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:51 +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:40:20 Marco Stornelli wrote:
>>> Robert P. J. Day ha scritto:
>>>>   just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded
>>>> linux work?
> 
> Not if it's in anyway avoidable.
> 
> [....]
>>> Like Linus Torvals said "...C++ is an horrible language" :)
>> If you avoid RTTI and exceptions and if you are handle templates and multiple 
>> inheritance carefully I see nothing which speaks against using it for 
>> embedded and real-time software.
> 
> That's the main reason for *not* using C++ in the embedded world in the
> first place.
> Tell people that they may use C++ and see them happy.
> Then tell them that you better not use templates, RTTI, exceptions and
> multiple inheritance if you want to boot from small space.
> 
> Yes, one *can* use the above features and get small features. But most
> people simply can't - if only that they use some tool/lib written in C++
> (and coming from the "normal" world) which simply uses them without
> thinking about space and wonder why the device won't run with "only"
> 128MB flash and run in 16MB RAM.
> 
> BTW why should I use C++ if I don't use any "fancy features"?
> 
> 	Bernd
I quite agree with you

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