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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