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Re: Move GDB to C++ ?


On Friday 11 July 2008 13:23:34 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > The inline functions are not specific to C++, and templates -- well, there
> > are no issues debugging templates, and who needs templates outside of 
> > (well-debugged already) STL, anyway (*)?
> >
> > Last time I checked, GDB had some bizarre logic to handle C++ namespaces,
> > but well, who needs namespaces (*)?
> 
> FWIW, if you look at gold, it uses templates and namespaces quite
> extensively. :-)

I know. I've no opinion how reasonable it is there; but I don't know
any piece of GDB that cries for those language features.

- Volodya



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