Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:27:40 -0700
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:55:18AM -0600, cpghost wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:23:47PM +0000, Antonio Gonz?lez Castro wrote:
> > Hi, I'm not sure this is interesting or useful, but I translated devd daemon
> > from C++ to C.
> 
> Why would you want to do that? IMHO, the code in
> /usr/src/sbin/devd/devd.cc is beautiful, concise
> and very readable.

To allow one to use an alternative compiler technology
to compile the system.  See, for example, clang and pcc.

-- 
Steve
Received on Fri Jun 12 2009 - 15:27:49 UTC

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