[TUHS] C++ / Kernel

[Derek Fawcus]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:42:40AM -0400, ron at ronnatalie.com wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone experimented with building Unix using C++, to take
> > advantage of strong typing?  My guess is no--it would be a Herculean task
> likely to introduce more bugs than it would fix.

I recall that there was an attempt to do this with the Linux kernel,
but that it was abandoned before it was completed, this would have
been pre '98. Probably pre 2.4 Kernel.

I have vague memories of discussions about it on the (kernel) mailing
list at the time, and that it was the original cause of the 'asmlinkage'
annotation on the C level syscalls - basically to turn off C++ name
mangling for when the assembler syscall table referenced the C routines.

DF