Re: C as assembly language

VBDis <vbdis@aol.com> wrote:
[...]
: C++ or C# are far away from C and processors, and establish their own
: model of execution on the target machine.


When I read the underlying models of execution (virtual machines) in
the C and the C++ standards they seem remarkably similar.


: Better use C or any other HLL instead, which better suits your
: expectations on OO programming.


Huh?


[...]
: C was designed for a specific set of
: processors, existing at that time (many decades ago), not at all for
: processors in general.


Which features of C do you see as being specific to those processors
of yesteryear, and "not at all for processors in general"? AFIK, the
C standards committee has gone to great lengths to avoid making
assumptions that would require less-than-optimal code on modern
architectures. For instance, one is not allowed to read a dangling
pointer because certain implementations on certain architectures use
registers that trap when dangling pointers are read.


Tom Payne

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