Re: normalization of pointers...

In article <yMCdnfyzhYxUtsLbnZ2dnUVZ8tWnnZ2d@xxxxxx>, Malcolm McLean <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

"Chris Hills" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:UQGfIoAfOnXGFAZD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <j-udnQsUUKufQsDbRVnyuQA@xxxxxx>, Malcolm McLean <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
"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,

That is not correct. However it is a common fallacy put around by those whose programming stated and ended with PC's

Aha. You are not such a limited person. So not subject to the fallacy.

But isn't your pride in that status based on the fact that most people write programs for PCs?

I don't think most people do write programs for PC's , probably not since the games console was invented and a large chunk of PC programming moved to consoles. You only hjave to look around you to see the man y things that have an MCU in (cars have 100+ these days and usually 2 or 3 separate networks. We are talking 8-64 but MCU.

There isn't a household appliance that does not have an MCU in it from toasters to vacuum cleaners. For every PC there are thousands of embedded systems. There are many systems that still run on mainframes. (Or non windows/Linux compilers that may be x86 based)

The worlds telephone system (and every modern telephone on it) is a large embedded system and they don't use PC's.

In fact numerous as PC's are they there are far more embedded systems. These are not al 8 bit systems but 4-128 bits...... I was programming 64 bit embedded systems well over a decade ago.















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