Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: C++ and the kernel | Date | 9 Apr 2002 18:52:19 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020409085537.4291B-100000@chaos.analogic.com> By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Bollox! > > > > There are many places in the kernel that are actually very OO - look at > > filesystems for example. The super_operations sturcture is in effect a > > virtual function table. > > The file operations structure(s) are structures. They are not object- > oriented in any way, and they are certainly not virtual. The code that > manipulates them is quite physical and procedural, well defined, and > visible to the rest of the kernel. >
Again, bollocks. The file operation structures are vanilla vtbl implementations of virtual functions. The fact that they're written
foo->f_ops->func(foo, ...);
instead of
foo->func(...);
makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.
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