Re: Linux Kernel / C++

Frohwalt Egerer (froh@devnull.iconsult.com)
5 Aug 1996 22:39:30 +0200

alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

>When the GNU folk have a usable C++ compiler thats not ten times slower than
>gcc, doesnt migrate volatile objects over synchronization points etc then
>maybe. C++ would add some very handy typechecking

But it might be interesting to make the kernel compile with g++ (again!),
so g++ could be used as some kind of strange 'lint'. Of course such a
kernel's startup code would print a warning or even refuse to run.

Froh

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