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From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de>
To: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>
Cc: Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:51:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807290951.34563.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488EC964.2030400@coritel.it>

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:40:20 Marco Stornelli wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day ha scritto:
> >   just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded
> > linux work?
> >
> > rday
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> Like Linus Torvals said "...C++ is an horrible language" :)

If you avoid RTTI and exceptions and if you are handle templates and multiple 
inheritance carefully I see nothing which speaks against using it for 
embedded and real-time software.
e.g. the kernel eCos is implemented in C++.

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 15:43 prevalence of C++ in embedded linux? Robert P. J. Day
2008-07-28 15:54 ` Chris
2008-07-28 15:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-28 16:15 ` Domenico Andreoli
2008-07-28 17:30 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2008-07-28 21:47 ` Ben Nizette
2008-07-29  5:42   ` Roberto A. Foglietta
2008-08-02  4:14   ` Ben Nizette
2008-07-29  7:40 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-29  7:51   ` Alexander Neundorf [this message]
2008-07-29  8:20     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-29  8:35       ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-29  8:58       ` Alexander Neundorf
2008-07-29  9:47         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-29 20:08           ` Leisner, Martin
2008-07-30  4:46             ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-30 10:25               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 11:04                 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-30 11:58                   ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-30 12:38                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 13:01                       ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-30 12:48                   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-30 13:07                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 13:58                       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-30 10:16             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-29  8:50   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-29 11:39     ` Richard Danter

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