How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
arXiv:2201.07845 · doi:10.1145/3477113.3487274
Abstract
The C programming language was developed in the 1970s as a fairly unconventional systems and operating systems development tool, but has, through the course of the ISO Standards process, added many attributes of more conventional programming languages and become less suitable for operating systems development. Operating system programming continues to be done in non-ISO dialects of C. The differences provide a glimpse of operating system requirements for programming languages.
PLOS '21: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems October 2021