>Beats me why anyone is writing in C full stop. Embedded software? All of the platforms I work on provide C/C++ compilers and driver libraries that are C only.

>Beats me why anyone is writing in C full stop. Embedded software? All of the platforms I work on provide C/C++ compilers and driver libraries that are C only. I'm working on an ARM Cortex project right now and there isn't even C++11 support.