Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
Personally, I don't see the point. If you're going to give in to
the dominant paradigm, why bother with Linux at all?
So, presumably all your computers are Linux on PowerPC and ARM?
As a matter of fact, in my world, you're pretty close.
My PC's are Linux. My embedded systems are ARM of various flavors from our own custom ASIC
with ARM and OAK DSP to another mfg. using ARM and another DSP (new product). Embedded
OS's are VxWorks, Linux, and others.
My programming world hardly touches Wintel any longer. In addition, without my early
learning of assembly programming (my first real application was a graphics program on a Ti
architecture and using 100% asm), much of my embedded work would be much more difficult.
To quickly touch on a previous post before I leave for home, learning asm taught me how to
write efficient code and figure out better algorithms for doing things. Higher level
languages do not allow the insight into the inner workings of the architecture, why a
buffer overflow can be a Very Bad thing and exactly what happens when it occurs (and how
someone can take advantage of it to do Bad Things), etc.
Time to go home now. :D
PGA
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