C++ in the kernel

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> [071026 21:42] wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had done any further thinking about this.
> 
> It seems a team in Iceland succeeded in making Linux C++ enabled:
>    http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml
> 
> Particularly interesting are the measurements for exception handling.
> 
> The Click Modular Router is an example of a test case for C++ in both 
> the Linux and FreeBSD kernels.

Heh, Click was extremely unstable for us on both FreeBSD and Linux.

I do think it would be nice to suppost at miniumum a subset of 
C++ in kernel, but I think someone would have to come forward to do
the heavy lifting. :)

-Alfred