From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 14:13:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B2B106570E for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout5.freenet.de (mout5.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7842F8FC17 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.16] (helo=6.mx.freenet.de) by mout5.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #76) id 1LYhkG-0001vi-FP; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:13:20 +0100 Received: from taa85.t.pppool.de ([89.55.170.133]:28179 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 6.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #76) id 1LYhkG-0008Qz-83; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:13:20 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:13:18 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Bruce Simpson Message-ID: <20090215151318.0d17bfb9@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <499811DF.6030905@incunabulum.net> References: <4995BB1B.7060201@icyb.net.ua> <20090213231513.GA20223@duncan.reilly.home> <4997F105.5020409@icyb.net.ua> <499811DF.6030905@incunabulum.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Reilly , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: weeding out c++ keywords from sys/sys X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:13:25 -0000 On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:00:15 +0000 Bruce Simpson wrote: > Please don't listen to the nay-sayers, and keep up the good work:- > > http://web.archive.org/web/20071222161357/http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml > It isn't exactly confidence building that all the links on this page are invalid. This is all from 2005 and AFAICT has languished since then. I'm not aware of any movement within the Linux community to bring C++ support into the kernel. > Nay-sayers: All I ask is that you don't complain when someone who knows > how to use the tool, and has the support, gets more working code written :^) > I haven't been paying much attention to this thread, but I can't recall having read any persuasive arguments for using C++ in the kernel. I personally get cold chills up and down my spine just thinking about it. Maybe I've been doing kernel development for too long. --- Gary Jennejohn