Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:10:42AM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote: | > >Memory bloat is a problem for embedded systems. Attitudes about just | > >"buy | > >another gigabyte" is why i use C for everything for speed, portability, | > >compactness, and conciseness of design. | > | > But you are not compiling on the embedded machine :). | > | > That is the point of Mike Stump, nothing else. | | We should still care about memory consumption, because older machines | sometimes have limited expandability (there are laptops added today that | cannot take more than 512Mb, and that's a current machine). | | Folks in third-world countries with cast-off machines should be able to | use GCC.
a note that this issue is just about some starved people in some obscure countries with obscure machines that escaped from Middle Age. While I know a bit of third-wrld, I have also been working in some western European countries for a sufficiant time to say that, well, far many real machines used there for work in univeristies and research labs still don't go beyond 512Mb memory; and they really would love to use GCC and GCC should be usable on those machines. -- Gaby
