C++

[Philipp Stanner]

Could coreboot (or parts of it) be written in C++?

What would be the advantages and disadvantages?

[ron minnich]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 6:14 AM Philipp Stanner  wrote:
> Could coreboot (or parts of it) be written in C++?

I hope not.
> What would be the advantages and disadvantages?

I can't think of a single one, and I see a lot of C++.

Note that there are parts of coreboot written in Ada. I don't like Ada that
much, but it's a better language for safe software than C++.

ron

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Philipp,

Am Samstag, den 28.01.2017, 15:13 +0100 schrieb Philipp Stanner:
> Could coreboot (or parts of it) be written in C++?

Sure, it’s possible and could be done.
> What would be the advantages and disadvantages?

As the others, I don’t see an advantage.

But, did you just mean coreboot, or “coreboot based firmware”, which
includes payloads?

If the later, I believe that you can indeed write payloads with C++, if
you know it well.

I have no idea about the size implications though.

Kind regards,

Paul