Trust about D programming.

[Freddie Chopin]

On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 21:02:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> I don't really have much embedded experience besides assembly 
> programming in the old days (Z80, M68000, x86, MIPS, self build 
> processor for digital circuits class).
>
> My understanding is that the processors the micro-controler 
> class, the ones with memory in the order of bytes or kilobytes, 
> usually C compilers that only implement part of the ANSI 
> standard, given the hardware constraints.
>
> Meaning just a very small subset of data types is supported, 
> limited library support and lots of compiler extensions to make 
> use of the processor and on die ports.

Nothing like this here - you have all types, you have complete 
libm, libc and stdlibc++ with everything you need. There are no 
compiler extensions other than a typical GCC __attribute__ used 
to declare interrupts, which is not really necessary on most 
Cortex-M3 chips. These are really powerful chips with 
1.25DMIPS/MHz and clocks around 70MHz (ranging from 24MHz to 
204MHz)... There's even a dual-core chip - LPC43xx which has 
Cortex-M4F (with single precision hardware FPU and some SIMD 
instructions) and a Cortex-M0, both running at 204MHz <:

So these are not very much like 8-bit microcontrollers (AVR, PIC, 
...)

That's why I think D would fit such chips quite nice (; Sans the 
GC of course... Maybe without exceptions too, but I don't think 
that would be possible (it's pretty hard in C++)...

4\/3!!