Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-12-01T00:06:29Z

Em Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:40:13PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > BCPL was typeless, as was the successor B (between Bell Labs and GE we
>
> B isn't quite typeless. It has minimal inbuilt support for concepts like
> strings (although you can of course multiply a string by an array
> pointer ;))
>
> It also had some elegances that C lost, notably
>
> case 1..5:

Hey, the language we use, gcC has this too 8-)

[acme@doppio net-2.6.25]$ find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep 'case.\+\.\.' | wc -l
400
[acme@doppio net-2.6.25]$ find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep 'case.\+\.\.' | head
./kernel/signal.c: default: /* this is just in case for now ... */
./kernel/audit.c: case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG ... AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG:
./kernel/audit.c: case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG2 ... AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG2:
./kernel/audit.c: case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG ... AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG:
./kernel/audit.c: case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG2 ... AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG2:
./kernel/timer.c: * well, in that case 2.2.x was broken anyways...
./arch/frv/kernel/traps.c: case TBR_TT_TRAP2 ... TBR_TT_TRAP126:
./arch/frv/kernel/ptrace.c: case 0 ... PT__END - 1:
./arch/frv/kernel/ptrace.c: case 0 ... PT__END-1:
./arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c: case GDB_REG_GR(1) ... GDB_REG_GR(63):
[acme@doppio net-2.6.25]$

- Arnaldo