> And even more in a non-professional setup, which will in most cases
> mean: using gcc, which has warnings for such probable mistakes.

True, however, these kind of tools and warning settings you have got in the
assembly language too. Also you guys said Olin made his asm extension
(pre-processor) as he realized the need because of the weakness of the asm
language. This is the same here: lint and other tools invented as realised
weaknesses of the C and/or other HLL languages. Probably if we would like to
get the most secure code we would need to go for much more strict languages,
like ADA.

Anyway guys, HLL is great, and also it is nice to see good code optimizers
existing such as XCSB. I'll definitely will have a look at this and other
compilers if I can improve my productivity or the reliability of the
firmware in the near future.

Thanks,
Tamas



On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:15 PM, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:

> > This is actually one of the lesser used arguments in favor of
> > C: the existence of such tools. Whenever we discuss how
> > unsafe programming in C is, we should consider programming in
> > C with the available tools. At least when talking about
> > programming in a professional setup.
>
> And even more in a non-professional setup, which will in most cases
> mean: using gcc, which has warnings for such probable mistakes.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
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