[coreboot] C++

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

I completely agree with Ron (Ron, don't say that I in some cases do not
agree with you ;-] ).

My ad-hoc very rough estimations will be that you'll shrink around 30/40%
of code, but introducing two (virtual) levels of abstraction with (about)
three levels of inheritance for real classes will slow down boot time for
at least 30%.

Not to mention effort to do this. Not even worth thinking... The rule of
thumb is that system SW is written in low level languages (ASM, C).

Let us leave C++ to application guys. ;-)

Zoran

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:59 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 6:14 AM Philipp Stanner <stanner at posteo.de> wrote:
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>> Could coreboot (or parts of it) be written in C++?
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> I hope not.
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>> What would be the advantages and disadvantages?
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> I can't think of a single one, and I see a lot of C++.
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> 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
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