: I think C++ experimentation came later --- g++ was well known to be unusable
: in the 0.99 days. IIRC it was somewhere in the 1.1 series (my memory
A boring historical delve into early C++ kernels...
Looking back over my old CD collection, the Yggdrasil Linux Internet
Archive, May 1995, Disk 2 (Sunsite mirror) has a 0.99.11 kernel which
has in the Makefile....
#
# standard CFLAGS
#
CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -x c++
The 0.99.12 kernel README file reads...
NOTABLE changes since patchlevel 10 or earlier:
- The kernel is now compiled with C++ instead of plain C. Very few
actual C++ features are used, but even so C++ allows for more
type-checking and type-safe linkage.
A quick grep of the 0.99.11 tree doesn't actually show any comments on
this!
The 0.99.13 kernel Makefile has the c++ bit commented out...
CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer # -x c++
but this doesn't appear to be documented...
Annoyingly the CD misses the 0.99.14 kernel totally.... The Walnut Creek
"Toolkit for Linux" August 1994 jumps into the gap :-)
The 0.99.14 kernel has a CHANGES file and this reads (editted)
CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 12 and earlier:
- compiled with plain C by default instead of C++
<wavey lines>
When I put a production environment (running 0.99.12.small-patch) into
effect, I ignored the C++ option as too unstable :-) Heh, those ships
have over 100days uptimes (according to an ex-cow-orker who just visited
one of them!)
</wavey lines>
Hope this answers any questions :-)
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