Re: How to write kernel modules using C++

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 May 1999 04:47:35 GMT

Followup to: <19990522114406.C1047@loth.demon.co.uk>
By author: Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:33:13PM +0530, MURALI N wrote:
>
> > I want to know if it is possible to write kernel modules using
> > C++. If yes, then how is it possible. Let me add that I have tried
> > the most trivial modules without any success.
>
> I would have thought it should have been possible. The only thing
> you'd have to
> do is stop the compiler mangling the init_module() and cleanup_module()
> symbols, and I can't remember how to do that, off hand.
>

... and every single other imported symbol.

-hpa

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