Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeQ==?= Dalvik? Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:40:41 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <953kh4Fo65U1@mid.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-86-36.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1307410841 3818 118.92.86.36 (7 Jun 2011 01:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:40:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5047 In message <953kh4Fo65U1@mid.dfncis.de>, H.J. Sander Bruggink wrote: > The fact that there exist platforms on which there is no JVM, indicates > that porting a C (or C++) program to a different platform is not simply > a recompile. There is actually a big effort involved. There are thousands of open-source C/C++ programs that can indeed be “simply recompiled” across a wide range of hardware platforms. > C is very portable, yes, if you're writing a single-threaded, > non-networking console application. If you want the program to be > actually usable in practice, you need platform-independent libraries for > the networking, the threads, the GUI, the XML processing, etc. Most of which are already available, and written in portable C/C++, right all the way down to a portable OS kernel.