RFC: C version of devd daemon.

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, cpghost<cpghost at 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.

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