Othman, Ossama wrote:
Does anybody know if it's possible to use boost within a Linux driver?
For reference, here's the Linux kernel FAQ item on C++ in the kernel (including drivers):
Hmm, unfortunately that page has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. There is little actual information to be found there, only folklore (which may or may not be true). In particular, the often heard claim about "C++ is slow" and "C++ compilers suck" needs to be substantiated by real numbers / comparisons. (I'm working in High Performance Computing, working mostly with C++.) The one real argument unfortunately only alluded to is exception handling (stack unwinding). It would be nice to have a technically accurate description of the involved mechanism (let's take the now established C++ ABI for that) and discuss why it is hard / impossible to use in kernel code. I'm sure there are a great many good discussions to be had over this (and I do know that C++ and POSIX folks like to get into those), but the above page just isn't a good resource to get informed, unfortunately. </rambling> Regards, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...