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Re: [C++ PATCH] warning about empty extern "C" structures
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:17:17AM -0500, Oleg Ostrozhansky wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > The kernel also doesn't allow compiling c++ modules. Could you please get
> > this silly argument out of the discussion.
>
> And the biggest technical reason it doesn't (allow C++ modules) is the
> possibility of introducing bugs due to this empty structure issue.
> Having compiler help here is the first step to having that changed.
> So no, this is not a silly argument at all.
No, it's not. And this gets really oftopic here.