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Re: [PATCH 00/36] Support building GDB as a C++ program
- From: Patrick Palka <patrick at parcs dot ath dot cx>
- To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:49:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] Support building GDB as a C++ program
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/17/2015 11:19 PM, Patrick Palka wrote:
>> On another note, as you all may already know, C++ support in GDB is
>> not great. A migration to C++ will in the medium term make it harder
>> to debug GDB with GDB. I wonder if this is an issue worth
>> considering.
>
> Migration to C++ will increase the priority of improving C++ support in
> GDB, which is the right thing to do, IMO.
That makes sense.
>
> --
> Yao