In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0203072239440.9061-100000@rivendell.starwolf.com>, Gr
eywolf writes:
>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Todd Vierling wrote:
># Bounds checking of any kind comes with a price, whether compile-time (in the
># form of less code flexibility, such that you can't do the low level things
># that C allows), or run-time (in the form of extra compiled code to do the
># bounds checking).

>Please don't tell me that you're seriously considering a rewrite of
>the kernel in C++ ("C++:C::Lung Cancer:Lung").

I see no evidence of any such plan in Todd's statement; he's merely pointing
out that there's a *reason* for which C does not mandate bounds checking.

-s