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Date:   Wed, 5 Sep 2018 21:59:22 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++
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> 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?

I think David is seriously trying to compile kernel with C++ compiler
and this is first step.

He isn't alone. Resistance is futile. :^)