Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 20:50:18 +0000 (GMT)

> The rest is FUD: it's trivial to "figure out" when you are passing a
> "self" pointer argument around: only non-static member functions have
> them.

On the contrary

foo1.C

blah->foofunc();

foo2.C

blahobject::foofunc()
{
printf("Hi");
}

a C++ compiler ends up passing "this" needlessly because it can't tell that
foofunc of object blahobject need not know who it is.

Thats only one example.

Alan

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