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| From | Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.ada, comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: “Is C++ Dead?” |
| Date | 2026-03-17 00:02 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10pa5ne$2et7s$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 16/03/2026 15:58, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> writes: >> On 15/03/2026 22:23, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:37:59 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote: >>> >>>> I suspect that once upon a time they used linker+c but boilerplate >>>> reduction and the gradual obsolescence of linker scripts to control >>>> memory layout lead to C++ and custom layout tools. >> >> eh, well, they're were still there internal to the build processes when >> I was working in automotive but they were often machine-translations >>from other sources, even via attributes and toolchain flags (because >> command-orientation is a common human trait). >> > > There is still a lot of standalone (sans-OS) code written > in both C and C++, and linker scripts are far from obsolete. > "non-hosted" C and C++. In general, linker scripts are far from obsolete. In the field (at least the growth segment of ADAS), specialisation was obsoleting them progressively to the point lots and lots of people had never heard of them. They had product-architecture-specific toolchain interfaces. -- Tristan Wibberley The message body is Copyright (C) 2026 Tristan Wibberley except citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may, of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.
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Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-03-12 19:46 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-14 23:35 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-03-15 13:35 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-15 15:37 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-03-15 17:58 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-15 22:23 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-16 15:34 +0000
Re: Re: “Is C++ Dead?” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-16 15:58 +0000
Re: “Is C++ Dead?” Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-17 00:02 +0000
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