Re: kbuild & C++

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > Yes, because the official Linux kernel is pure C (using some gcc
> > extensions).
> > There is http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml but it is
> > a) not integrated (and will probably never) and
> > b) you can't use parts of C++ anyway with it.
> 
> All the language features are supported, according to them.  The standard
> library is not available that I can see, but it's not available in C
> either, in the kernel.

ACK (and the few necessary equal or similar functions of the standard C
lib are implemented directly).
It depends on the to-be-integrated C++ source if it is clean enough from
these features (let alone from Win* specific stuff) so that it makes
sense to really integrate it (so that future versions can replace it
more easily) and just convert it to pure C (which may be less work now
but more of a maintenance headache).
And no, I don't think that building a "windriverwrapper" (a la
ndiswrapper) is a useful thing.

	Bernd
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