Re: [PATCH] C++ breaks on linux/ioport.h

From: Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 05:54:07 EST

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:49:18AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> The kernel is written in GNU C (ie. C with gcc extensions) and using
> keywords such as 'new' is _perfectly_ valid. The fact that the C++
> people introduced extra keywords is really irrelevant for the kernel
> development.

And i think that stumbling over C++ reserverd words in a block explictily
declared 'extern "C" {...}' as i suggested is a bug in either the standard
or the implementation of said standard in the compiler. What does the
ISO-C++ standard say about this?

Dominik

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