5 Sep
2018
5 Sep
'18
7:22 p.m.
On Wednesday 2018-09-05 18:55, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:54:27PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
Here's a set of patches that inserts a step into the build process to make sure that the UAPI headers can all be built together with C++ (if the compiler being used supports C++). All but the final patch perform fixups, including:
Wait, why do we care? What has recently changed to start to directly import kernel uapi files into C++ code?
With C++11, C++ has become a much nicer language to use (for userspace, anyway).
And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick themselves when they do the import?
The only trick is to use an extra C source file and extensively wrap things.