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Re: Will C++ proponents spend 20 minutes to try what they're proposing?
>>>>> "John" == John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> writes:
John> Has any of the proponents even *tried* to compile and run today's GDB
John> using a C++ compiler, to see what C constructs that it currently uses
John> will be rejected by the C++ compiler?
Yeah. Also with -Wc++-compat.
John> Recompiling the C code in C++ is the approach you're proposing to
John> take, right? Or do you propose that we compile some source files with
John> a C compiler and others with a C++ compiler?
No, please see the plan that I posted upthread. It lays out exactly
what we propose.
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2012-04/msg00044.html
Search for "concrete transition proposal".
John> When I configure gdb-7.4 with C++ and make it, it fails pretty early
John> here in libiberty:
We'd only convert gdb, not libiberty, bfd, etc.
John> PS: When did g++ start outputting non-ascii (Unicode) backquotes
John> and forward-quotes in its error messages? That's truly ugly. Look
John> at the compiler output in Emacs, for example.
There's some long threads about this all over GNUdom.
I can't remember when, it seems like a long time ago now.
Tom