From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Joakim Bentholm XQ (AS/EAB)" <joakim.xq.bentholm@ericsson.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Compatibility problem with C++, i386 & ia64 platform
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:54:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101398087.18214.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D6A41B94D27EA643BAE9319F5348603F17D6B3@ESEALNT895.al.sw.ericsson.se>
On Maw, 2004-11-23 at 12:54, Joakim Bentholm XQ (AS/EAB) wrote:
> Maybe the system.h is not supposed to be included outside the kernel?
> Is there a less crude way of getting hold of the macros?
Nobody has really done serious C++ work with the base kernel. Getting
things like interrupt safe C++ memory and exception handling is not
exactly trivial
stuff. As such the kernel isn't really designed to be C++ friendly so
there are various uses of names like "new" in the kernel.
Developing kernel modules with C++ probably isn't ideal but I don't see
any problem in fixing the users of variables like "new" if you want to
do it and submit tested patches to akpm@osdl.org.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-27 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-23 12:54 Joakim Bentholm XQ (AS/EAB)
2004-11-23 19:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-25 15:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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