On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 07:33:38PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 05 septembre 2018 à 18:55 +0200, Greg KH a écrit :
> > 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?
> >
> > And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick
> > themselves when they do the import? That must be how they are doing it
> > today, right?
> >
>
> They can't.
>
>
> Adding extern "C" { } doesn't magically make "class" a non keyword.
> Even if it was the case, writing C++ code using whatever->class would
> probably broke because class is a keyword in C++.
I think it's a bug in the language TBH.
> --
> Yann Droneaud
> OPTEYA
>
