Is Bare-Metal Programming Dead? (www.designnews.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 10 Jan 2025 18:05
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2025 18:15 next collapse

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ericjmorey@programming.dev on 10 Jan 2025 19:16 next collapse

Embedded software development has dramatically advanced over the past decade. What does that mean for bare-metal programming?

At a Glance

  • Bare-metal programming is an essential skill as it enables you to understand what your system is doing at the lowest levels.
  • Even if you spend your days working with abstraction layers, bare-metal programming will guide you should abstractions fail.
  • And bare-metal skills can provide a solid foundation for troubleshooting and debugging.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2025 21:19 collapse

Akshully, there are more levels below the machine code, with the mind-boggling complexity of modern CPUs and SoCs - but that doesn’t diminish the value of understanding it.

Flipper@feddit.org on 10 Jan 2025 23:21 collapse

Depends on what CPU is getting used but it’s really fascinating.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 11 Jan 2025 00:18 collapse

That’s why I said “modern.” You know exactly what’s happening on a MOS 6502, for example, but when your top-of-the-line ARM SoC starts throwing bus faults because a CRC function returned a value that looked like a pointer to restricted SRAM …

bitcrafter@programming.dev on 10 Jan 2025 23:20 collapse

Boy does it seem like this author is trying to push something. I wonder if…

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…yep, sounds about right.

Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Jan 2025 17:26 collapse

Aren’t function pointers against the MISRA standard?

I’m not saying they are bad because they can be really useful but when it comes to writing safe code I believe their usage is heavily discouraged