Re: why asmlinkage is needed?

Tom Vier (nester@sekurity.org)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 10:49:06 -0400 (EDT)


On 16 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:

> asmlinkage is just a historical remnant from the great deays when Linux
> was writen in C++ (somewhere around 0.97 I think).

woah, the kernel used to be in c++? why c++ then a switch to c?

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