From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261479AbULPQXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:23:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261523AbULPQXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:23:47 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:44764 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261479AbULPQXm (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:23:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:23:38 +0100 (MET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Alan Cox cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "J.A. Magallon" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What if? In-Reply-To: <1103203426.3804.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <41AE5BF8.3040100@gmail.com> <20041202044034.GA8602@thunk.org> <1101976424l.5095l.0l@werewolf.able.es> <1101984361.28965.10.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1102972125l.7475l.0l@werewolf.able.es> <1103158646.3585.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41C0F67D.4000506@zytor.com> <1103203426.3804.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 02:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Yes, but there is also no really big deal compiling C code with a C++ > > compiler. Yes, it was a disaster in 0.99.14, but that was 10 years ago. > > g++ is still much slower. We don't know how many bugs it would show up > in the compiler and tools either, especially on embedded platforms. Interesting to find out, anyway (for the g++-developers :-) > Finally the current kernel won't go through a C++ compiler because we > use variables like "new" quite often. Not something that can't be worked around using a simple #define... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds