Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:19:20 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>
Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>; Chip Salzenberg
<chip@perlsupport.com>; Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>;
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)

>
>
>On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
>> Oh, so if I do not use any #defines or pointers in my C-"like" program
then
>> it isn't really C, its a subset. By the way there is a subsetted version
of
>> C++ out there, its Embedded C++ which removes the more costly features of
>> the language.
>
> What overhead is associated with pointers in C? Or preprocessor,
>for that matter? And if you hope to avoid pointers in the kernel - write

I never said this. I was saying that you stating that using only a subset
of C++ was not C++.

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