Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: What if? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:23:47 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 02:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yes, but there is also no really big deal compiling C code with a C++ > compiler. Yes, it was a disaster in 0.99.14, but that was 10 years ago.
g++ is still much slower. We don't know how many bugs it would show up in the compiler and tools either, especially on embedded platforms. Finally the current kernel won't go through a C++ compiler because we use variables like "new" quite often.
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