Jamie> Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> Linux already uses more than a C compiler offers. The best answer
>> would be to merge gcc and g++, using a config file to enable the
>> features that Linus approves of. Linux could use "C+" then.
Jamie> One of the reasons Linus stopped using g++ on the kernel was
Jamie> the quality of the generated code. I gather g++ generates much
Jamie> better code now.
Jamie> It'd still be important to disable exceptions (for example).
Jamie> And templates remain dangerous bloat-generating territory.
And templates, and operator overloading etc etc.
C++ is much harder to maintain because there are a zillion obscure
features people can use in there. It means that the people who
maintains the kernel needs to understand these things as well thus we
suddenly reduce the number of potential kernel programmers to a tiny
fraction of what we had before.
Jes
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