Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:14:20 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver) |
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:57:47 -0500 From: Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey@gte.net>
Until then, its time to start considering getting the kernel's code buildable by g++ a little at a time.
No thanks, take simple normal C code and compile it both as C and then as C++. Look at the assembler, the C++ compiler gives me lots of code I didn't ask for. This is why we stopped compiling the kernel with g++ in the first place.
Secondarily, we have enough problems dealing with gcc bugs just with the C language, you open up a new pandora's box when we begin having to deal with c++ front end bugs as well.
The day the Linux kernel starts to go c++ is when I stop working on it. With C I can see the cycles I get as I code, with c++ there is no chance.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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