Is there any reason to use C instead of C++ for embedded development?

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I have two compilers on my hardware C++ and C89

I\'m thinking about using C++ with classes but without polymorphism (to avoid vtables). The main r

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For a system constrained to 4K of ram, I would use C, not C++, just so that you can be sure to see everything that's going on. The thing with C++, is that it's very easy to use far more resources (both CPU and memory) than it looks like glancing at the code. (Oh, I'll just create another BlerfObject to do that...whoops! out of memory!)

You can do it in C++, as already mentioned (no RTTI, no vtables, etc, etc), but you'll spend as much time making sure your C++ usage doesn't get away from you as you would doing the equivalent in C.