Re: Just what makes an architecture "C Friendly"?

On 2006-06-04, fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But "C friendly" means several things. When GCC says this,
I'm pretty sure it means "friendly environment in which to
implement a GCC compiler". So you've got several meanings
here:

Yes. I think the GCC definition for C practice is expressed
by a growing number of people. I do think it is a stretch for
embedded use,

Why? I've used GCC for a number of embedded targets ranging
from the low end of the 6811 up through the MSP430 and H8/300
to the ARM. GCC works perfectly fine for embedded use, and is
far better than some commercial cross-compilers I've used.

but it is becoming an option more often to take the library
and file system and OS from development platform to the embedded
target with the minimal effort.

What do the library and file system have to do with it?

And even if you are just generating a small bit of embedded code
for that environment by running Linux and GCC quite happily on a
PC you probably were not thinking of running GCC out of a dozen
words of target ROM.

No more than you would be thinking of using any other compiler.

I was just pointing out that some C compiler users want to
stick to architectures, even for embedded systems, that are C
compiler hosting friendly, not just C comiler target friendly.

I've never run across anybody like that.

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