[nanomsg] Re: C++11 binding
- From: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 11:27:36 -0700
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> On May 7, 2014 at 11:56:26 PM, Peter Kümmel (syntheticpp@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> On 03.05.2014 12:59, Paul Colomiets wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>> I wonder if someone has tried to _implement_ nanomsg with C++11.
>>
>> You should probably read:
>> http://250bpm.com/blog:4
>> http://250bpm.com/blog:8
>
> Nothing you could not circumvent within C++.
>
> But a hard requirement for C is the idea to get it
> into the Linux kernel, C++ has no chance there.
>
>
> You can put C++ into kenrel modules. Been there, done that, got the scars
> and T-shirt to go with it. Generally you have to supply wrappers for some
> “builtins” (e.g. new() wrapper around malloc() or kmalloc() or
> kmem_alloc() depending on kernel), but its not too bad. But its almost
> impossible to make a small library from C++ unless the C++ programmers
> have basically confined themselves to a very limited subset of the
> language (at which point is it really C++?)
I think the intended meaning with "get it into the Linux kernel" was
_upstreaming_. Sure, the _technical_ side is feasible, but the code would
never be accepted into mainline.
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