From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk>
To: fff@microplex.com
Cc: ecos-discuss@cygnus.com
Subject: [ECOS] Re: TCP/IP Stack for eCos
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 05:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <199905051215.NAA13418@sheesh.cygnus.co.uk>
References: <199905042051.OAA16303@mancos.cs.utah.edu> <372F8B93.A33598D3@microplex.com> <372F8B93.A33598D3@microplex.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-05/msg00018.html

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Fierling <fff@microplex.com> writes:

    >> > It probably would take very little effort to get the OSKit's TCP/IP
    >> > stack working in eCos, [...]

    Fred> I assume it's written in C?

    Fred> It occurs to me that since eCos is written in C++ that it
    Fred> may be an idea to write its TCP/IP stack in C++ as well.
    Fred> Thoughts?

If somebody were to write a completely new TCP/IP stack for eCos then
C++ would be a reasonable choice of language - or rather a subset of
the language, some parts such as exception handling involve rather
major code size overheads which are usually unacceptable in embedded
systems. In practice I am not sure there is much justification for
writing yet another TCP/IP stack, there are plenty of them out there
already.

Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer