Re: why asmlinkage is needed?

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:02:46 +0300 (EEST)

Tom Vier <nester@sekurity.org> asks:
> 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?

In those early days there was a short experiment of turning
the kernel into C++, it didn't work, and was aborted.

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/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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