Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> I have  a friend who  did indeed write  a rather large  Linux kernel
> driver in C++. However it  required large amounts of tricky to debug
> helper  code to provide  support for  C++ features  like exceptions,
> new/delete, static object initialisation etc.

It's always the sodding exceptions,  isn't it?  I sometimes think that
the one really  good reason to avoid C++ is that  only the guru-est of
the  gurus can  write truly  exception-safe C++  code.   Everyone else
creates subtle bugs.

> > There was recently  serious discussion of writing parts  of gcc in
> > C++.
>
> That actually did go ahead from what I remember hearing.

Did it?  I thought the discussion fizzled out to no effect but I guess
I wasn't paying attention.  Where can I find out more?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty