linux headers and C++

Ronnie G Misra (rgmisra@mit.edu)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:16:32 EDT

I'm trying to build a kernel module in C++. This code includes some of
the linux kernel header files, and unfortunately does not compile with
recent versions of the kernel. The code is not my own - I have
inherited it from someone else - but I am assured that it used to
compile.

The error I get has to do with include/linux/signal.h under the kernel
source tree: the functions siginitset and siginitsetinv both contain
switch statements which are invalid C++ syntax (and in fact, are
invalid in C, but which make use of a gcc extension). Specifically,
the last label ("case 1:") in these statements should be followed by a
semicolon.

I have just subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, but I am not
sure I will get your responses, so please cc any discussion of this to
my address.

Thanks,

Ronnie Misra rgmisra@mit.edu
3 Ames Street, Box 152
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 225-6365

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