> In article <199808160521.AAA25968@duracef.shout.net>,
> Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >> We don't compile the kernel with g++, so why is asmlinkage used
> >> somewhere in the kernel function declaration?
>
> > The asmlinkage is for the benefit of user-space C++ programs that
> > include kernel headers.
>
> Not really. System calls are called through the int 0x80 interface
> with stubs in the libc, and the user program never sees the internal
> kernel symbol table. Linux is not a DLL.
>
> asmlinkage is just a historical remnant from the great deays when Linux
> was writen in C++ (somewhere around 0.97 I think).
>
> -andi
Linux was never written in C++, it was compiled with G++ because of it's
stricter type checking.
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