Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (40 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:21:49 +0200
Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2067
> 
> the relevant quote being "Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a
> BLOODY STUPID IDEA."
Several years ago, we decided to use lint(1) on the Tru64 Unix kernel.
It was a good idea that found many problems with the kernel code, and
cuased me to have many arguments with some of the kernel people because
I was the lint(1) maintainer. We also had a special mode to look for
32/64-bit issues specifically. At the same time there was a discussion
to use C++. 
IMHO: it is not a BLOODY STUPID IDEA", but C++ is not yet at the point
where it would be useful in a kernel. The real issue is that the C
compilers are much more mature than the C++ compilers. A kernel needs to
be very efficient. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
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