On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:17:58 -0500, Roman Kononov <[email protected]> wrote:
>Please let me summarize:
> 1) Many people are more efficient writing C++ modules.
> 2) It does not make sense to rewrite existing C code in
> another language.
> 3) Kernel H-files are not compilable by g++.
> 4) The H-files use C++ keywords.
> 5) The H-files use member initialization syntax, unsupported
> by g++.
> 6) The H-files use empty structures which are not empty in
> g++.
>
>4), 5) and 6) are to be fixed if we want to be g++-friendly. I am not
>aware of any other issues. Features like static constructors and
>exceptions are not strictly necessary for successful C++ programming.
>
>4) must be trivial.
>5) is less trivial but still doable. Can we ask g++ folks?
>6) looks rather painful.
>
>What do you think?
There's a document: CodingStyle
You seem to be arguing where the kernelspace / userspace boundary
line is. C++ is outside kernelspace.
Grant.
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