Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: What if? | Date | Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:23:29 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> said: > Imanpreet Singh Arora <imanpreet@gmail.com> said: > > Firstly I have read the FAQ. So though FAQ answers my question, it > >does so only partially. > > > > "What if Linux were to be implemented in C++?"
> To quota Alan Cox (IIRC): "Been there, done that, threw it out".
Not really. There was support to compile Linux using g++ for a C compiler some time back (because of better (at the time) type checking), the result was horrible (mainly due to compiler bugs, IIRC). The gain wasn't near worth the pain.
Rewriting Linux in C++ means fundamental redesign(s); as mentioned, the VFS would become a class, as would the driver interfaces, and much more. The object model inside Linux is sufficiently different from C++'s that it would be a _huge_ job. And pointless, you'd just get Linux as it stands today, and loose many current developers (due to unfamiliarity with C++). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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