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IshKebab
660 days ago
Sure, but such extreme use cases are rare and don't need to be constantly brought up.
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cozzyd
660 days ago
Even on larger microcontrollers you often have to write a bootloader...
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consteval
658 days ago
Ok but most of these use cases don't link to the standard libs anyway, even if you're writing a C program.
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IshKebab
660 days ago
Very occasionally I guess. They're almost always bare metal.
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cozzyd
660 days ago
You still want a bootloader to support firmware updates, typically in the first 8 kB of flash or something like that.
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IshKebab
660 days ago
Good point. I guess don't use `fmt` for that...
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