On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Leisner, Martin >> <Martin.Leisner@xxxxxxxxx> 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 rewrite >> of the GNU linker (ld). See also >> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html. > > Is C++ intrinsic to GOLD's linking superiority over ld? Or was it > chosen because the author fancied using it? (I don't know). I don't know whether C++ is intrinsic to GOLD's linking superiority. The reason I cited the GOLD project is because of the programming style of the GOLD source code. A quote from http://lwn.net/Articles/274859/, about the GOLD source code: I looked through the gold sources a bit. I wish everything in the GNU toolchain were written this way. It is very clean code, nicely commented, and easy to follow. It shows pretty clearly, I think, the ways in which C++ can be better than C when it is used well. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
