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SubjectFUD aside, one C++ question remains
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I have been following the kernel-C++ discussion as it spins off
the cliff, hoping to see an answer to the one question that matters.

We don't need a flame war here about the relative merits of C and C++.
(I have been more disappointed to read miserable FUD written by people
whom I respect (you know who you are) than to read flaming advocacy
by people I never heard of (and you know who you are, too).)

The only question that matters is this:

Will Linus accept header-file patches in 2.3 to clean up
incompatibilities with Egcs g++?

If not, then there is nothing to discuss.

If so, then there is _still_ nothing to discuss until somebody
writes an interesting driver in C++ and demonstrates some merits
in using the language in the context of the Linux kernel.

What seems dead clear, either way, is that talking about using C++
exceptions in the Linux kernel is purely masturbatory. It simply
won't happen in any foreseeable future. C++ has plenty of other
strengths ("OO" features perhaps least among them, for kernel
purposes), but there is no point in talking about them either
without code in hand.

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org


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