Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.

From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:52:06 +0200
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27:40AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.

clang will ultimately support C++ just fine. dont forget devd
is not the only C++ code in our src. we also have groff and
libstd++
Received on Fri Jun 12 2009 - 15:57:25 UTC

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