On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:12 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:53:20 -0500, Ruben Safir said: >> Its not even really C, at least not as a normal application developer >> thinks of it. This is systems programming with a lot of kernel specific >> libraries. > > It's C. The fact that things like stdio aren't available inside the kernel > doesn't mean it's not C. I would say that is C with GNU extensions [1]... Not plain/pure (ANSI/ISO) C. That's why it's not so easy to build the Linux Kernel with any other C compiler. There is a ongoing effort to build it with Clang [2]. I'm not sure how is the current status regarding the Intel C Compiler. > (I've worked on large userspace code bases where you could go for several > hundred thousand lines without seeing anything from /usr/include, and nobody > would argue that code wasn't C.) Best regards, [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gcc-hacks/ [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/734071/ -- Augusto Mecking Caringi _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
