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		JonChesterfield on Feb 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cake – C23 and Beyond (2023) You're working with embedded C that is a rats nest of macros. It could instead be sanely factored and readable C without the macros if it was written with slightly more trust in the compiler.

yau8edq12i on Feb 20, 2024 [–]

...and you're willing to use nonstandard attributes, code generators, and a custom preprocessor. At this point, why not C++, seriously?

And can you show me an example of an existing framework for embedded device that's not the spaghetti code I showed?

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