What is happenig under the hood ?

Hei,
in the University I have been programing in C and Labview. So, I tried to understand Labview with C.
For example, if I call the function "obtain a que" what does the compiler really do? From my perspective I would say the compiler is getting some memory (allocate memory) for the buffer and create some pointers in order to pass data. Is this right?
Thanks in advantage.
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D_1 wrote:
For example, if I call the function "obtain a que" what does the compiler really do?
You are getting serious answer so I'm going to be the NI answer. Why does it matter.
There are many things going on in LabVIEW, and at some point a magic hand is waved and things work. Now when they stop working we get upset and want to know why but for the most part the compiler does what it should, data flow works as you would think, and the low level nuisance are taken care of. On other platforms like Real-Time and FPGA there are some more controls, but in Windows so much is done for you, and NI wants it to be that way.
There's still room for computer scientists to write complicated code, and have it be modular scalable reusable, extensible, and there is room for object oriented stuff. But generally there is more control in lower level programming languages. Of course when you're dealing with large scale DAQ systems and rapid proto typeing, you generally have bigger things to worry about than where your memory and queues are coming from.
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