Messages in this thread | | | Subject | FUD aside, one C++ question remains | From | Nathan Myers <> | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:09:19 -0800 |
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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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