C++ in the kernel

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20071102203803.GO77844 at elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>A policy that might be interesting is to do something along
>the lines of what we do with GPL, basically, core code in the
>kernel can not be based on nor depend on it.

I don't know if this is realistically possible, without some
kind of intermediate layer to translate, for instance inline
assembly.

But apart from it being a lot of, currently, pointless work that
would really gain us anything, as long as no viable competitors to
GCC exists, I fully agree:  Either you take portability seriously
(ie: run with any compiler) or you handle portability seriously
(ie: run it through our frontend, so any compiler can cope).

But in any case, this is all very theoretical until there are
a non-comical alternative compiler for us.


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