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From: Bongani Hlope <bhlope@mweb.co.za>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Subject: Re: Compiling C++ modules
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:11:52 +0200
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On Tuesday 25 April 2006 18:46, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Should you want to allocate from the heap, try this:
>
> {
>     spinlock_t::guard g(some_lock);
>     auto_ptr<Foo> item(new (gfp_mask) Foo);   /* or pass a kmem_cache_t */
>     item->do_something();
>     item->do_something_else();
>     return item.release();
> }
>

I love C++, but you have to stop it now. Imagine how many auto_ptr<Foo> will 
you use inside your kernel. The compiler will need to create a separete class 
for each. Using templates in the kernel will be plain silly.