Re: linux headers and C++

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
06 Jul 1999 10:51:40 +0200


>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

Jamie> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> C++ is much harder to maintain because there are a zillion obscure
>> features people can use in there.

Jamie> Albert suggests restricting g++ to those features approved by
Jamie> Linus, enforcing it in the compiler. A bit far fetched I
Jamie> think.

Jamie> I do think the code generation issue is fixed now though. That
Jamie> was the originally objection to g++ -- back when g++ was used
Jamie> to compile kernels for better type checking.

How are you going to restrict it? Require people to run a special
version of the compiler?

Jes

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