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Re: Move GDB to C++ ?
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: stanshebs at earthlink dot net
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:30 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Move GDB to C++ ?
- References: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:46:15 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
>
> As many know, there is a project afoot to investigate the recoding of
> GCC from C into C++. I believe the C++ idea was briefly touched on for
> GDB at the summit, although I don't remember much discussion. Anyway,
> this would be a good time to start thinking about it, and if people are
> generally in favor of the idea, we can start small by tweaking the
> sources to be C++-friendly, avoiding keywords and so forth; GCC has a
> new warning flag -Wcxx-compat that can help.
I think this is an absolutely retarded idea. C++ is a horrible
programming language.