Re: C++ and the kernel

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Chris Friesen quotation:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>> Making code "cleaner" is a matter of perspective.
>> 
>>         class A {
>>         public: void func(char *st) { cout << st << endl; }
>>         };
>>         using A::func;
>>         A a;
>>         a.func("Hello World!");
>> 
>> Is not all that clean. In fact, I'm not sure I have it right. It's
>> easier and clearer to write  puts("Hello World!");
>
> Your example is needlessly complex, and I'm sure you know this.  A more
> realistic comparison would be:
>
> cout << "Hello World!\n";

And of course standard libraries are not available in the kernel, so
you'll most likely end up calling printk anyway in your C++ kernel
code.

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