Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:40:20 Marco Stornelli wrote: Robert P. J. Day ha scritto: just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded linux work? rday -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-embedded in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Marco Stornelli
Bernd Petrovitsch ha scritto: On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:51 +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:40:20 Marco Stornelli wrote: Robert P. J. Day ha scritto: just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded linux work? Not if it's in anyway avoidable.

Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features

2008-07-29 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock() system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl() and NFS support are

Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:17 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock() system call, the F_GETLK,

RE: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Leisner, Martin
If you're embedded device has a window system, than a language like C++ is fine...But... To extend on this quote (by Stroustrup): In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.. I've found you can understand spaghetti C code with some effort --

Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Leisner, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're embedded device has a window system, than a language like C++ is fine...But... C++ is suited for much more than just windowing systems. A good example is the GOLD project, a linker for ELF files. GOLD is a