Maybe I should not react to this, but here I go...

>> exception handling => safety critical stuff
> 
> exception handling => race condition on small micro

a "race" condition is something very important indeed. 

But I assume you meant "rare"? You did a lot of automibile, military,
nuclear, and space projects? Ever programmed for ESA?

Ever programmed in a language that had exception handling, so you could
appreciate it?

> > templates => flexible libraries (reduces development costs)
> 
> flexible libraries with C++ calling conventions => huge 
> memory and code overhead, high library porting and maintenance cost

I dunno about C++ calling conventions (multiple?), C++ can call by C
convention if you want. 

Did you ever actually use templates? Using it can actually *save* code
compared to a (roughly) equaly flexible C library.

> > "better C part of C++" => less coding errors
> 
> worse C++ expands C => the temptation to use automatic 
> strings on a micro with limited RAM, the temptation to use 
> inheritance and object collection on same, the temptation to 
> call by reference in a non-memory protected environment

Temptation to use 'general' memory allocation/deallocation is easily
handled by not linking agains memory allocation. This 'tempation' is
available in C too, but I admit it is more visible there. 

Inheritance is actualy very useable, and static (not dynamic)
inheritence cost *nothing* more than a C call. Dynamic inhertance can -
when used properly, like all tools - save a lot of code. It can aslo be
misused. Which tool can't?

> Also code footprint 30% to 300% of optimized C code.

If you mean 0.3 .. 3.0 times the footprint of C code you are not saying
very much, except that C++ can be better (and can be worse).

If you meanr 0.3 to 3.0 times *more*: bullocks. Take your C code, pass
it through a C/C++ compiler in C++ mode and get the same assembly as in
C mode. After that, see what could be done better with C++ constructs
and start saving code.

Wouter van Ooijen

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