Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:52:51 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C++ in the kernel Message-ID: <4755.1194036771@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:38:03 MST." <20071102203803.GO77844@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20071102203803.GO77844@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >A policy that might be interesting is to do something along >the lines of what we do with GPL, basically, core code in the >kernel can not be based on nor depend on it. I don't know if this is realistically possible, without some kind of intermediate layer to translate, for instance inline assembly. But apart from it being a lot of, currently, pointless work that would really gain us anything, as long as no viable competitors to GCC exists, I fully agree: Either you take portability seriously (ie: run with any compiler) or you handle portability seriously (ie: run it through our frontend, so any compiler can cope). But in any case, this is all very theoretical until there are a non-comical alternative compiler for us. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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