[openbeosnetteam] Re: Dial-Up
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 19:59:38 +0200 CEST
Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In reply to Waldemar Kornewald:
[...]
Just me again, throwing in a few words. :-)
> > Maybe there are some articles on the net describing how to make the
> > networking implementation of the future? :)
>
> Not that much, and I searched them!
> Most network stack design articles are:
> - about BSD/Linux current implementation.
> - about a simple TCP/IP-only stack design, which can give some hints,
> but don't
> help enought
> - about a Object Oriented (C++) stack design, but as BeOS kernel (and
> OpenBeOS 's one most probably) linker don't support that well C++, we
> code
> our stack in C++ but C only.
From all I've learned until now, the C++ kernel support will be quite
good. There'll be only a few C++ features, you won't be able to use,
like exceptions and RTTI -- and even those only, if nobody adds support
for them. Really, the usual stuff can be done exactly as in userland,
if you want.
[...]
CU, Ingo
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