Re: Compiling C++ modules

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Alan Cox wrote:
There are a few anti C++ bigots around too, but the kernel choice of C
was based both on rational choices and experimentation early on with the
C++ compiler.
Times have changed, though. The C++ compiler is much better now, and the recent slew of error handling bugs shows that C is a very unsafe language.

I think it's easy to show that the equivalent C++ code would be shorter, faster, and safer.

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