Re: kbuild & C++

[Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk>]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:21:42 +0200, Esben Nielsen said:
> 
> > I use a RTOS written in plain C but where you can easily use C++ in kernel
> > space (there is no user-space :-). We use gcc by the way.
> 
> This isn't RTOS, in case you haven't noticed. ;)
Well, with Ingo's preempt-RT patch it is becomming a RT-OS, but that is
not the issue here.

> 
> > It has been done for Linux as well 
> > (http://netlab.ru.is/pronto/pronto_code.shtml). Why can't this kind of
> > stuff be merged into the kernel? Why is there no efford to do so??
> 
> Quoting http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml:
> 
> "The code is installed by applying a patch to the Linux kernel and enables the
> full use of C++ using the GNU g++ compiler. Programmers that have used C++ in
                                                                    ^^^^  

> Linux kernel modules have primarily been using classes and virtual functions,
> but not global constructors. dynamic type checking and exceptions. Using even
> this small part of C++ requires each programmer to write some supporting
> routines. Using the rest of C++ includes porting the C++ ABI that accompanies
> GNU g++ to the Linux kernel, and to enable global constructors and destructors."
> 
> So let's see - no constructors, no type checking, no exceptions, and using
> virtual functions requires the programmer to write the glue code that
> programmers want to use C++ to *avoid* writing.  Sounds like "We stripped out
> all the reasons programmers want to use C++ just so we can say we use C++ in
> the kernel".
> 
> So, other than wank value, what *actual* advantages are there to using this
> limited subset of C++ in the kernel?
> 

If you cared to read the whole page you will notice that they talk about
the _past_. They have as I understand the page, they claim to have _fixed_
the problems.

Esben

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