Re: kbuild & C++

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:20:11 +0200, Esben Nielsen said:

> 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.

http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s15-3 Why don't we rewrite the Linux kernel in C++?

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