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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:41:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] #ifdef __cplusplus removal (fwd)
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Peter Jones wrote:

>  And again for my bad email aliases :)
> This patch removes the "#ifdef __cplusplus" from within a "#ifdef
> __KERNEL__" in linux/string.h.  It really isn't needed AFACIT.  It was
> put
> in for 1.1.0, which was before __KERNEL__ appeared.  Alan told me to
> send it to you.

A quick grep shows __cplusplus is used in quite a few places in the kernel
source. I'm wondering if various developers are running their code through
g++ to maybe pick up on warnings that gcc doesn't see.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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