> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:35:37 -0600
> John Giacomoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was planning on using the macro __cplusplus to toggle using
> > extern "C" { }, however the bsd.kmod.mk style Makefiles seem to
> > force the language to -std=c99 even when compiling with c++ .
> >
> > my initial steps have been as follows:
> > take a functioning C based kernel module and rename to .cc
> > added extern "C" around the includes.
> > #defined key words such as new to xxx_new
> > recompiled the new .cc file by hand without -std=c99, but
> > keeping all the flags as the Makefile set them.
> > then linked using the Makefile and finally loaded the module.
>
> -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions is probably a must unless you want to bring a
> whole libsupc++ library into the kernel.
I've been silently following this thread, and unless I missed something, has
anyone asked John why he wants/needs to use C++ in the kernel?
--
Matt Emmerton
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