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Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?


On 04/18/2012 04:53 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:27:55 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> I don't like the prospect of a fragmented GDB with important parts in C and
>> others in C++,
> 
> OK, we can therefore target only this problem.  I do not think we should
> seriously code anything in C.


> Making GDB crashing for every GNU/Linux end-user developer just to make easier
> bootstrapping system for the few toolchain developers is IMNSHO not worth it.


Non sequitur.

> We can talk about the C gdbserver, I believe it can be forked from the current

> codebase and removed almost everything there, including threading support.
> But I do not have experience with new architectures bootstrapping myself.


I've already replied to the same point today, 2 times:

 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-04/msg00113.html
 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-04/msg00110.html

-- 
Pedro Alves


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