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We still have embedded 8-bit. Expect embedded 32-bit approximately forever.
by davidgerard 12y ago
We still have embedded 8-bit. Expect embedded 32-bit approximately forever.
- ori_b 12y agoEmbedded 32 bit x86, with the SysV ABI and support for register calling conventions, though? This is specific to i386, as far as I'm aware. And even then, the worst parts of it are only specific to i386 using the same SysV calling conventions -- ARM has PC relative addressing, as do most other processors commonly used in embedded systems. If you have PC-relative addressing, the entire problem goes away.
- wtallis 12y agoYeah, but we all know the embedded 32-bit stuff that's going to be around forever is ARM, not x86.
- creshal 12y agoWe hope it's not going to be x86… I dunno. I still see too many embedded 486/686 clones around for my liking, and Intel is now trying to get into the whole IoT business with x86-32 Quark CPUs.