Re: [PATCH] #ifdef __cplusplus removal (fwd)

Peter Jones (pjones@redhat.com)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:42:58 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Peter Jones wrote:
>
> > And again for my bad email aliases :)
> > This patch removes the "#ifdef __cplusplus" from within a "#ifdef
> > __KERNEL__" in linux/string.h. It really isn't needed AFACIT. It was
> > put
> > in for 1.1.0, which was before __KERNEL__ appeared. Alan told me to
> > send it to you.
>
> A quick grep shows __cplusplus is used in quite a few places in the kernel
> source. I'm wondering if various developers are running their code through
> g++ to maybe pick up on warnings that gcc doesn't see.

That was the only one I saw in include/linux that was inside __KERNEL__ .

I didn't look in include/asm* carefully, but grep found some __cplusplus
code there as well.

-- 
        Peter

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