Re: What if?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 02:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Yes, but there is also no really big deal compiling C code with a C++ 
> > compiler.  Yes, it was a disaster in 0.99.14, but that was 10 years ago.
>
>
> g++ is still much slower. We don't know how many bugs it would show up
> in the compiler and tools either, especially on embedded platforms.
> Finally the current kernel won't go through a C++ compiler because we
> use variables like "new" quite often.

-Dnew=_New, problem solved.

I'm not in any way advocating compiling with g++ exclusively, but it 
would be nice to be *able to* for bugchecking.  It would be an 
interesting experiment, of nothing else.  I suspect it'd require some 
minor code tweaks and turn up a small handful of bugs right off the bat.

	-hpa

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