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AFAIK kernel itself is only coded in C and assembly. Shell, python, perl and make are for building and tools. Linux kernel does not support c++ (its exceptions

by labawi 7y ago

AFAIK kernel itself is only coded in C and assembly. Shell, python, perl and make are for building and tools. Linux kernel does not support c++ (its exceptions, RTTI etc). Only c++ I found was related to perf tool, 6 of 7 cpp files had test in their name.