Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:55:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: why asmlinkage is needed? |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980816104537.668A-100000@zero>, Tom Vier writes: > +----- > | 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? > +--->8 > > Because g++ was a buggy piece of crap back then --- the three or so kernel > revs built with g++ were horrifically buggy, and most of the bugs vanished > when the (few) C++isms were removed and the kernel rebuilt with gcc.
With the newer, and what i understand to be less crappier g++ in egcs-1.1 (and gcc-2.8.x ?) would this make any sense to do for 2.3.x ?
--- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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