24 Aug
2018
24 Aug
'18
7:22 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:42:40AM -0400, ron(a)ronnatalie.com wrote:
I recall that there was an attempt to do this with the Linux kernel,
but that it was abandoned before it was completed, this would have
been pre '98. Probably pre 2.4 Kernel.
I have vague memories of discussions about it on the (kernel) mailing
list at the time, and that it was the original cause of the 'asmlinkage'
annotation on the C level syscalls - basically to turn off C++ name
mangling for when the assembler syscall table referenced the C routines.
DF
Has anyone experimented with building Unix using
C++, to take
advantage of strong typing? My guess is no--it would be a Herculean task
likely
to introduce more bugs than it would fix.