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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:37:28 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ in the kernel
Message-ID:  <20071027063728.GK33488@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <4722BDBE.5030408@incunabulum.net>
References:  <4722BDBE.5030408@incunabulum.net>

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* Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> [071026 21:42] wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had done any further thinking about this.
> 
> It seems a team in Iceland succeeded in making Linux C++ enabled:
>    http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml
> 
> Particularly interesting are the measurements for exception handling.
> 
> The Click Modular Router is an example of a test case for C++ in both 
> the Linux and FreeBSD kernels.

Heh, Click was extremely unstable for us on both FreeBSD and Linux.

I do think it would be nice to suppost at miniumum a subset of 
C++ in kernel, but I think someone would have to come forward to do
the heavy lifting. :)

-Alfred



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