Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16

benh@kernel.crashing.org
Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:00:09 +0100

>3. Someone had too much time at apple, becouse the C++ found
> there doesn't apparently contain anything that couldn't
> be expressed without any pain in plain C with structs containing
> function pointers ;-).

Hehe, right :) Though they actually limit the C++ usage in the kernel
to a kind of "embedded C++", that is without multiple inheritance, RTTI
or exceptions. C++ is the main reason why I call it "bloated".

Ben.

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