From: ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 01:25:37 GMT
pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Idle Raffish Hippy Grocer) writes:
>In <1993Jul4.000303.1356@dg-rtp.dg.com>,
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
>about 0.99pl11
>> This has a few changes from
>> the last one, the most notable being that it is compiled using C++, as
>> there was some interest in that on the c.o.l newsgroup. ...
>You know, call me old-fashioned, but I've always considered changing the
>compilation language a little more than a `patch-level' step...
Correct me, if I'm wrong, I think C++ has a different symbol encoding e.g.
for functions and structures. So it would be difficult to
a) search kernel-symbols via nlist() and
b) link .o Drivers (if one day there are some commercial ones), because they
can't find some global symbols.
So, does this C++ compilabilyty effect portability ?
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