Re: Compiling C++ modules

[Avi Kivity]

Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
>
>   
> > Perhaps people who developed kernel-level code in _both_ C and C++ would 
> > be qualified to speculate on that (I have, but apparently I don't have a 
> > clue).
> >     
>
> Well, what about just showing an example of kernel code in C++, which
> you consider nice?
>   

I don't have access to that code (which was closed source anyway).

But it executed C++ code within a few cycles of entering the reset 
vector (no standard BIOS), including but not limited to: programming the 
memory controller (430MX chipset), servicing interrupts, hardware 
accelerated 2D graphics (C&T 65550), IDE driver, simple filesystem, 
simple windowing GUI, network driver (Tulip) etc.

More recently I participated in writing a filesystem in C++. That's in 
userspace, but many of the techniques used in writing kernel code are 
necessary there (extreme robustness, can't assume infinite memory, 
locking, etc.)

There are C++ embedded kernels in http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/ and 
http://ecos.sourceware.org/, but I haven't looked at them, so I can't 
say whether I consider them nice or not.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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