Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:03:46 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: Compiling C++ modules |
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Alan Cox wrote: > There are a few anti C++ bigots around too, but the kernel choice of C > was based both on rational choices and experimentation early on with the > C++ compiler. > Times have changed, though. The C++ compiler is much better now, and the recent slew of error handling bugs shows that C is a very unsafe language.
I think it's easy to show that the equivalent C++ code would be shorter, faster, and safer.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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