Re: kbuild & C++

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Esben Nielsen wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > On 9/6/05, Budde, Marco <budde@telos.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for one of our customers I have to port a Windows driver to
> > > Linux. Large parts of the driver's backend code consists of
> > > C++.
> > >
> > > How can I compile this code with kbuild? The C++ support
> > > (I have tested with 2.6.11) of kbuild seems to be incomplete /
> > > not working.
> > >
> >
> > That would be because the kernel is written in *C* (and some asm), *not* C++.
> > There /is/ no C++ support.
>
> Which is too bad. You can do stuff much more elegant, effectively and
> safer in C++ than in C. Yes, you can do inheritance in C, but it leaves
> it up to the user to make sure the type-casts are done OK every time. You
> can with macros do some dynamic typing, but not nearly as effectively as
> with templates, and those macros always comes very, very ugly. (Some say
> templates are ugly, but they first become ugly when they are used
> way beyond what you can do with macros.)
>
> I think it can only be a plus to Linux to add C++ support for at least
> out-of-mainline drivers. Adding drivers written in C++ into the mainline
> is another thing.

Please announce it and the URL when you have done it.

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~Randy
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