Re: normalization of pointers...


"Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ff0s53dcohboqf049p7kea8i37rb71hf21@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:31:11 +0100, in comp.lang.c , "Malcolm McLean"
<regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Chris Dollin" <chris.dollin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
I didn't say "old compilers", either. I understood this /feature/
to be largely /obsolete/; perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it depends
on the scope of the "largely".

Most people program PCs most of the time,

I beg to differ. Most people I know programme functionality not
hardware.

In most PC programs most of the time is spent on the user interface. You are writing to an API, but one very closely tied to the hardware.
That's maybe getting less true than it was. Processors are now fast enough so you don't need to worry about updating the display efficiently. And there are more hig-level tools about that arguably make it easier to tack up a UI.

And I betcha the number of salaried embedded programmers still
outweighs wintelers.

I don't know. When I did embedded stuff I still spent a great deal of time writing supporting programs on PCs, though the final product was not a PC program.
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