This is a question I have been searching for a while but I have not got a proper answer yet :(
- How does the Harvard Architecture map to C/C++ languages (High Level Languages)?
- How are they related or how does the architecture help HLLs?
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The only way Harvard vs Princeton architecture is really relevant to C++ is in the rule 5.2.10p8 concerning mixing function pointers and object pointers:
Converting a function pointer to an object pointer type or vice versa is conditionally-supported. The meaning of such a conversion is implementation-defined, except that if an implementation supports conversions in both directions, converting a prvalue of one type to the other type and back, possibly with different cv-qualification, shall yield the original pointer value.
That rule allows C++ to be used on machines which have separate address spaces for code and data.
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