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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:30:51 -0700
From:      "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
To:        bsdnewbie@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: _Can I use C++ to write device drivers?
Message-ID:  <F974XFKpRcTCi90gP8y000050c1@hotmail.com>

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(Pre-note. I am not a driver expert by any means)

You can write a driver for FreeBSD in any language that can compile, i.e., 
any non-interpreted language. C++ may not be the best choice for a driver 
because it has slightly higher overhead in some cases than C, and many of 
its advantages probably wouldn't be very useful in writing drivers.

Plain old C is the most popular language for writing drivers in the Unix 
world, and most drivers are written in either C or a mixture of C and 
assembly.

>From: "bsdnewbie bsdnewbie" <bsdnewbie@hotmail.com>
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: _Can I use C++ to write device drivers?
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:14:30 +0800
>
>hi,
>    I want to write my new driver by using C++.  However, I do not know 
>that
>if device drivers of FreeBSD can be written in C++.  And, if can, how about
>the performance, a little slower or can not accept at all?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>bsdnewbie
>
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