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Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by tonyarkles on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:03PM (#18982928)
> You use the MMU

Must be nice to have one of those! Cortex-M* does not.

Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by jschwartzi on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:01PM (#18985348)
There's no need to get snarky. I've used similar parts before, for example TI's Hercules RM4 does not have an MMU either and so what I said wouldn't apply there. But that doesn't mean you would never have an MMU.
Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by tonyarkles on Monday January 28, 2019 @10:38AM (#19018236)
Indeed, my apologies. I actually quite like the idea. It reminds me a lot of Erlang, where you set up a bunch of small processes and if any of them die, you can a) try to recover quickly, or b) run in reduced functionality mode. I just haven't been fortunate enough to work with embedded processors where it'd be a good fit; they've either been on the small side (Cortex M, MSP430, AVR) or on the big side (iMX6, AM335x) and just run full-blown Linux.