Re: Does Bill Gates know about the DDK regarding C++?

my company has a license for the source code for a USB-rs232 converter from
a well known chip manufacturer with a 2 character acronym.

the code could be -for all practical purposes- MFC.
really. it is full of things like

DriverObject theDriver; //the one and only instance of ...

it is totally unreadable, and all system calls are buried 3 levels deep.
it seems to work (the latest version anyway) but i really don't want to
touch it.

there is something to be said for clean WYSIWYG source code. especially in
such sensitive
an environment as device drivers.

kind regards,
Bruno.




"Don Burn" <burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Please let us know the companies and drivers you have written for, so we
> can avoid them. A friend of mne just had to deliver the bad news to a
> firm that if they wanted a stable maintainable driver, they had to throw
> out the crap they had, which did exactly as you describe. Having heard
> about this one, and encountered a few like it myself, I know how the
> customer feels when you explain, gee throw out this plague.
>
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> "Mike Yoke" <MikeYoke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I don't know about that. I never written a driver in anything other than
>>C++.
>> For me its not so much about abstracting away low-level details, but
>> rather
>> about the expressive power of the language. I use STL too, with
>> allocators
>> that are suitable for kernel mode.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>


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