Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: why asmlinkage is needed? | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:02:46 +0300 (EEST) | | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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Tom Vier <nester@sekurity.org> asks: > On 16 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > asmlinkage is just a historical remnant from the great deays when Linux > > was writen in C++ (somewhere around 0.97 I think). > > woah, the kernel used to be in c++? why c++ then a switch to c?
In those early days there was a short experiment of turning the kernel into C++, it didn't work, and was aborted.
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/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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