linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++

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Message-ID: <26412.1536881269@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:27:49 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++

Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> 	It's too early for AFD postings.  And you *are* tempting
> me to throw into the tree as many anti-C++ devices as can be
> done tastefully, just to stop somebody attempting that insanity
> in the earnest.

You would deliberately break the UAPI header files to make sure that they
couldn't be used with C++?

David