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[ECOS] Re: TCP/IP Stack for eCos


>>>>> "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