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Re: Embedded C++
- To: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Embedded C++
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:13:44 -0700
- cc: raeburn at cygnus dot com, brendan at dgs dot monash dot edu dot au, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199812301144.MAA00513@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
> As I understand it, a *good* EC++ compiler should make use of the
> omitted features, such as not having to deal with multiple inheritance
> and templates. In particular, it would come with a iostreams library
> that is not templatized and has no locale code.
In theory, yes. In practice I do not think most implementations do this,
particularly the library simplifications.
> code. Instead, they propose arbitrary restrictions on programs, based
> on what they consider "hard to implement".
Precisly. In fact, the primary reason EC++ exists was because certain folks
didn't want to burn the time to implement the harder aspects of the C++
language.
jeff