On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi Abel,
>
> at the bottom of each message there is a url to lkml FAQ - have you read
> it? It should say (I haven't read it myself but it _should_, Richard you
> hear this? :) plainly that Linux (or any UNIX) kernel development in C++
> is a very bad idea and explain why. Because C++ is not yet a mature
> programming language for tasks where precise knowledge of the generated
> code is required (and probably will never be). Think of C programming (in
> the kernel) simply as an assembly programming but using compiler as a
> useful shortcut generator, instead of typing tedious (and most
> importantly, arch-dependent!) sequences of instructions. Just a way to
> save time, and still remain in total control of what the resulting code
> will do and precisely how it will do it.
just in case - I did intentionally omit the exception handling and garbage
collection things (and many other) as "obvious", i.e. just more reasons
why one should _not_ use C++ in the kernel.
Regards,
Tigran
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