Hi, >> That would be because the kernel is written in *C* (and some asm), *not* C++.
I cannot see the connection. At the end everything gets converted to assembler/opcode. In the user space I can mix C and C++ code without any problems, why should this not be possible in the kernel mode? >> There /is/ no C++ support. This will be a problem in future. Nearly nobody will start a new larger project (driver, user space software, embedded firmware) using non OO languages today. So porting eg. Windows drivers to Linux is nearly impossible without C++ support. E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB. Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C. This would take years. > I think it can only be a plus to Linux to add C++ support for at least > out-of-mainline drivers. Adding drivers written in C++ into the mainline > is another thing. Right. cu, Marco - 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/
