| ??? 12/05/07 20:37 Read: times |
#147915 - general re 'portable code' Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I will bet anyone who cares, that much, much more effort has been put into making code portable than the effort would have been to, in the few instannces where 'porting' actually took place, use 'non-portable' code as a template for code matching the portee.
I have absolutely nothing against 'nominal' efforts to make code portable (e.g. the phrase 'unsigned char' appear only once in any program of mine). However, to, for the sake of principle, spend days to make a program so it will compile with Keil, IAR and SDCC for a '51, a PIG, an AVR and a 68' is ridiculous (I have seen such done). To take a few things from a '51 to an ArghVR, it will take, based on experience, 15 minutes to 'port' the 'non-portable' code - been there, done that. Now, I just realize one thing. Everything I say is based on using CodeWright, for those of you using an inferior editor the results will vary. Erik |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| How to write portable code | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| C is a language - not a compiler | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PL/M | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Have you considered PLM2C? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A good point - often missed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So what's the downside? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Complex code - Libraries | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| COTS libraries versus inhouse libraries | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hence portability is not such a big issue! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| There are downsides | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Portability vs. Readability/Maintainability. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| who gives a hoot about portability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Portable by BIOS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I give a hoot about portability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I am definitely not arguing against "code reuse" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HAL | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Small and easy things that may make Your day | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The developer is probably the biggest factor | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I may take issue with this one... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
general re 'portable code' | 01/01/70 00:00 |