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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging by milkey_mouse on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:59PM (#19019511)
> The [Linux] kernel already contains some C++

Are you sure? I don't think the kernel even compiles with a C++ compiler [1]. Also, I just ran cloc on my linux repo and didn't get any actual C++ code.

Perhaps some external kernel modules are written in C++, but that seems like a bad idea too [2].

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=45-Linux... [2] https://www.threatstack.com/blog/c-in-the-linux-kernel

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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging by std_throwawayay on Monday January 28, 2019 @01:08PM (#19019606)
That [1] was what I remembered. They were preparing for C++. But obviously it didn't get as far as actually including C++ code in the mainline kernel. Maybe it was a preparation in order to allow experimenting with C++ in the kernel.
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