Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
Those new and better ways of doing things in programming languages
might imply semantics some programmers are not willing to use, and
would rather keep their older language and implement their own
version of that feature themselves, pure C will always dominate in
that in my opinion since I can't think of anything in the language
itself that generate calls to runtime methods,
There are several things that do - things like floating point
conversions, long division, etc.
Aren't those just part of the generated machine code? I mean the
compiler does not add calls to symbols which need to be resolved in the
runtime library.
No, they are calls to functions in the runtime library. All C compilers
I know of do this.
