On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:59:31PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> C also requires a (very minimal) runtime. And I don't see how having a
> runtime disqualifies a language from being usable in a kernel; the
> runtime is just one more library, either supplied by the compiler or by
> the kernel.
Well the majority of C syntax requires no runtime library. There are
some system call like things that you often want that need a library
(like malloc and such), but those aren't really part of C itself. Of
course without malloc and printf and file i/o calls the program would
probably be a bit boring. I have written some small C programs without
a runtime, where the few things I needed where implemented in assembly
and poked the hardware directly and called from the C program.
> Object orientation in C leaves much to be desired; see the huge number
> of void pointers and container_of()s in the kernel.
As a programming language, C leaves much to be desired.
--
Len Sorensen
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
