Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust

Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by pjmlp on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:48PM (#11491582)

Windows has been moving to C++ on kernel space since Vista, even newer C-like APIs are actually C++ code with extern "C" calling convention.

They have stated multiple times that C++ is the way forward for systems programming on Windows.

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by boduh on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:05PM (#11491726)

Any reference for this?

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by pjmlp on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:59PM (#11492154)

Yes, Herb Sutter's blog regarding C99.

The new C runtime library was re-written in C++ with extern "C" for the entry points.

Vista introduced support for C++ in the kernel

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by yuhong on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:13AM (#11495027)

I don't think it happened until much later than Vista.

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by pjmlp on Thursday April 14, 2016 @06:25AM (#11495469)

Vista was when the wheels were set on march, not when the travel ended.

For example many of the new APIs were COM based, not plain C like ones.

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