Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:10:30 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: individual.net tb8lRhxV6xrja7Fc05WeXQZXQmi1Vvdh30xaTtnSGnUlog5av7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MjcyNjczZmMxNDJlZjA0NWVlN2RlNGIwZThkNzZkMDJlOTU4Y2UxNg== sha1:Z44LAT0JjRAk/vYfWt6IFd+F44s= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:122698 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: >>Melzzzzz writes: >> >>> Low level stuff is usually written in C ;) >> >>Nope. You have to do it in assembler. >> >>-- >>__Pascal J. Bourguignon >>http://www.informatimago.com > > > Linux is written is C. Isn't that low-level enough for you? Wrong. There's a whole bunch of assembler in Linux. And for C, there are a lot of parts that are actually writtenin gcc, and not in C. Have fun, try to compile it with clang! https://lwn.net/Articles/734071/ > I've written an operating system and two hypervisors in C++ > over the last 30 years. Software that runs at the lowest level > in the system. > > Many BIOS and all UEFI implementations (tianocore) are written in C. -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon http://www.informatimago.com