Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:23:04 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: linux headers and C++ |
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Jes Sorensen wrote: > The point here is that you should not try to use C++ features inside > the kernel, ie. things like exceptions are not meant to be used within > the kernel as you do not know what it will do to your stack etc. Again > the kernel is written in C, let it stay like that. > > Forcing people to write kernel code in C like this actually prevents a > lot of nasty disasters that will be hard to debug.
Sure, force this be only allowing C code in the kernel and its device drivers. I'm 100% for that.
But why disallow a third-party kernel-space application from using C++ if they want to? We're not talking about the kernel, we're talking about third-party code that will never be part of the kernel.
C++ has a lot of useful compile-time features -- you don't need exception handling. Classes being the obvious one. (In fact I've written C++ for many years and _never_ used exceptions).
Though perhaps C++'s most useful feature for third-party code is that there's a lot of it already written for user-space and other OSes.
-- Jamie
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