Comment by noobermin
3 years ago
How would such a platform without file systems handle #include?
Reading further, I don't think this was ever addressed when someone else brought it up. I cannot for the life of me imagine a system where #include works but #embed doesn't. Again, it's fine if some systems have non-standard subsets of the C standard....why hobble the actual standard for code which can be compiled on systems where you have a filesystem (that will handle #include by the way) for the systems without filesystems?
> How would such a platform without file systems handle #include?
I don't think it would, you'd cross-compile for it on a platform with a file system. I think the parent poster's point was that C is the only option for some ultra low resources platforms and that a conservative approach should be taken to add new features in general. I don't think they were saying that specifically that not having a filesystem is problematic for this particular inclusion.
include is with regards to the source platform, not the target platform la, you (generally) need a filesystem to compile, but you don't need a filesystem to run what you compiled