The C++ runtime is too big for the kernel. It is also largely unnecessary. You can easily compile C++ code without STL or larger library support. This still le

The C++ runtime is too big for the kernel. It is also largely unnecessary. You can easily compile C++ code without STL or larger library support. This still leaves some holes that the runtime provides, but all of which are easy to provide -- namely things like 'new' and 'delete'.