Re: [sdcc-devel] Having __far pointers that are wider than generic pointers?

[Steve S. <ste...@gm...>]

 On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM Philipp Klaus Krause <pk...@sp...> wrote:


> The embedded C standard explicitly states "There is no
> requirement that named address spaces (intrinsic or otherwise) be
> subsets of the generic address space.


Let me add my 0.02€

It makes totally sense for seasoned programmers in the embedded space,
but for the average one, the POSIX way might be much less surprising.

While mcs51 way is sometimes annoying slow, is it very conservative.
Which in my book, is a good thing. As for myself, I always favor
correctness over performance by default.

There's already way too many bugs that solely exist because
of an unaware programmer, in the name of efficiency.

Cheers,
--
Steve Schnepp