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Is it possible to do some low level programming with STL, at least containers and algorithms? I need to do a simple OS and have to know if is feasible to try the C++ and STL or go with plain C. Any resources are accepted.Thanks.
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And how about Boost?
You should totally use the C++ STL. Even if you only work with bare pointers and arrays, the STL Algorithms will vastly clarify your thinking and programming. The genius of Alexander Stepanov’s STL is that Algorithms are expressed with respect to Iterators, and Iterators are a generalization of pointers, so you can apply any of his algorithms to raw pointers and arrays with zero run-time overheard.
Plus, here’s the best part. If you think like Alexander Stepanov, and use his pointer-to-beginning and pointer-to-past-the-end idiom, all of the plus one (+ 1) and minus one (- 1) terms will drop out of your array and loop logic and you’ll never again have to watch out for off-by-one logic errors.
You should write an OS that natively represents strings as a pair of byte* to begin and past-the-end of a UTF8 memory block. Then your OS can replace the Unices and liberate us from null-terminated signed char* strings.