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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Cc: rohit h <hrohit85@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LINUX-KERNEL] C++ in linux kernel
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:54:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802081653560.26116@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b25c3fa70802080714m6236614i6b991dbb5d4aa20f@mail.gmail.com>


On Feb 9 2008 00:14, Joonwoo Park wrote:
>2008/2/8, rohit h <hrohit85@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>  I am a kernel newbie.
>>  I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance.
>>  I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword.
>>  What could the problem be?
>>
>>  What kind of runtime support is needed ( arm linux kernel)? Is a
>> patch available for it?
>>
>Please take a look at click modular router which is using c++ as a
>linux kernel module.
>http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/
>The lib/glue.cc provides custom operator new.

Uh, let's not make the world worse :)
Just call malloc from C++, and carefully select what C++ features
you are going to use. The VMware source for example does it right.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08  5:21 rohit h
2008-02-08  5:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-08 10:17 ` [LINUX-KERNEL] " Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-02-08 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-08 15:14 ` [LINUX-KERNEL] " Joonwoo Park
2008-02-08 15:54   ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2008-02-09  0:45     ` Joonwoo Park
2008-02-11 11:37     ` rohit h
2008-02-11 11:49       ` vignesh babu bm
2008-02-11 12:20       ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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