Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:29:58 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Antonio Gonz?lez Castro <agoca80@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon. Message-ID: <e71790db0906121029j234eb642xd7d3e2ad057517a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090612165518.GA15530@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <538f43900906120823w388f1c63ic8d0194017faca6d@mail.gmail.com> <20090612165518.GA15530@phenom.cordula.ws>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, cpghost<cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:23:47PM +0000, Antonio Gonz?lez Castro wrote: >> Hi, I'm not sure this is interesting or useful, but I translated devd daemon >> from C++ to C. > > Why would you want to do that? [...] There is an ongoing effort to replace GCC by Clang, whose support for C++ is stil incomplete. > [...] For everything > that's dynamically linked, I don't really see the point (with > the exception of very few special cases). There is at least one important special case: embedded systems, where a C++ runtime library is not available. -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.
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