Re: C++ pushback

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:00:52PM -0500, Roman Kononov wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
- a lot of the C++ features just won't be supported sanely (ie the kernel
infrastructure just doesn't do exceptions for C++, nor will it run any
static constructors etc).
A lot of C++ features are already supported sanely. You simply need to
understand them. Especially templates and type checking. C++
exceptions are not very useful tool in kernels. Static constructor
issue is trivial. I use all C++ features (except exceptions) in all
projects: Linux kernel modules, embedded real-time applications,
everywhere. They _really_ help a lot.

Seriously, your code must be broken.

The C++ standard does not allow an allocator to return NULL, it is
supposed to raise an exception.

Jan

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