Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:52:06 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Antonio Gonz?lez Castro <agoca80@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Subject: Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon. Message-ID: <20090612175206.GA77895@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090612172740.GA1952@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <538f43900906120823w388f1c63ic8d0194017faca6d@mail.gmail.com> <20090612165518.GA15530@phenom.cordula.ws> <20090612172740.GA1952@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27:40AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:55:18AM -0600, cpghost 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? IMHO, the code in > > /usr/src/sbin/devd/devd.cc is beautiful, concise > > and very readable. > > To allow one to use an alternative compiler technology > to compile the system. See, for example, clang and pcc. clang will ultimately support C++ just fine. dont forget devd is not the only C++ code in our src. we also have groff and libstd++
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