Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: If GOLD is as old and flexible (and portable?) as binutils, The author says it will only work with ELF, and he does not intend to add support for all the other things binutils does. gcc and/or other huge software maintained to death, it is probably similar complex and

Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-30 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:07 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: If GOLD is as old and flexible (and portable?) as binutils, The author says it will only work with ELF, and he does not intend to add support for all the other things binutils does. Well, supporting 80% of the

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: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Leisner, Martin
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Petrovitsch Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:47 AM To: Alexander Neundorf Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux? On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:58 +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Tuesday 29 July

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