Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Compatibility problem with C++, i386 & ia64 platform | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:54:47 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2004-11-23 at 12:54, Joakim Bentholm XQ (AS/EAB) wrote: > Maybe the system.h is not supposed to be included outside the kernel? > Is there a less crude way of getting hold of the macros?
Nobody has really done serious C++ work with the base kernel. Getting things like interrupt safe C++ memory and exception handling is not exactly trivial stuff. As such the kernel isn't really designed to be C++ friendly so there are various uses of names like "new" in the kernel.
Developing kernel modules with C++ probably isn't ideal but I don't see any problem in fixing the users of variables like "new" if you want to do it and submit tested patches to akpm@osdl.org.
Alan
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