Re: What if?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > 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.
>
>
> It's not that easy. Just when you expect it least, a few tiny sourcecode bits 
> already use new (in the C++ sense) and whoops:
> 	int *b = _New int[4];
> (self-explanatory)

Unlikely, since we'd already have caught it, but either way -- hat's a 
bug too.  There shouldn't be any C++ code in the kernel, period.

	-hpa

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