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SHOW HN2015
97points
14comments
#252of 2,565 in 2015
Top 10%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting project to follow
From 1 comment
Interesting to see where this will go. I believe the common things to choose when one wants C on minimal runtime are RTEMS and eCOS: https://www.rtems.org/…
nickpsecurity on HN
Objections
Limited to 32-bit x86 with no example hardware
From 1 comment
A bit limited, as it's only for 32 bits x86, something the topic doesn't mention. There is no example of supported hardware, so at first glance It seems it would only be useful…
buserror on HN
Assembly use is hard to maintain and code quality is mediocre
From 1 comment
Not all that useful and the code quality is mediocre. gas has macros to reduce boilerplate to nearly nothing. String primitives have already been written in portable C with one…
bro-stick on HN
Requests
Add a freestanding snprintf implementation
From 1 comment
Something that would be really useful: a freestanding snprintf implementation. There are a few self-contained snprintf implementations, such as this one:…
exDM69 on HN
Provide a consistent cross-platform interface for video, input, storage and threads
From 1 comment
Not all that useful and the code quality is mediocre. gas has macros to reduce boilerplate to nearly nothing. String primitives have already been written in portable C with one…
bro-stick on HN
Alternatives named
RTEMS and eCos
From 1 comment
Interesting to see where this will go. I believe the common things to choose when one wants C on minimal runtime are RTEMS and eCOS: https://www.rtems.org/…
nickpsecurity on HN
Pure64
From 1 comment
Pure64 from Return Infinity sounds like something similar for 64-bit systems (sans C headers): https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/Pure64
rzzzt on HN
Xvisor
From 1 comment
Xvisor [ http://xhypervisor.org/ ] does that (plus many other things) -- I do like the virtio driver layer a lot; however in the case of Xvisor, you also get CPU virtualisation…
buserror on HN