Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:37:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: C++ in the kernel Message-ID: <20071030173734.GV33488@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20071030163613.E70665B30@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20071030055840.GS33488@elvis.mu.org> <20071030163613.E70665B30@mail.bitblocks.com>
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* Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> [071030 09:36] wrote:
>
> The structured macro paper referenced on the K wiki page also
> seems rather interesting. A powerful macro facility needs to
> be well integrated with the language (much like Lisp or
> Scheme's macros) so that you can write for instance
>
> critical_section(lock) {
> ...
> bar:
> ...
> if (cond1) break;
> ...
> if (cond2) goto foo;
> ...
> if (cond3) goto bar;
> ...
> if (cond4) return; // from enclosing function
> ...
> }
> ...
> foo:
do you mean like C++:
do {
critical_object critical_instance();
}
?
Just wondering how much of this we want to roll on on our own.
-Alfred
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