Re: MinGW build failure for GDB 8.2.90 with source-highlight

Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07T20:29:55Z

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:20:11 +0000
>
> See slides #16-#17 of my Cauldron 2017 presentation:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2017?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=gdb+-+C%2B%2B+conversion+%26+dogfood.pdf
>
> The idea is to put all of gdb under "namespace gdb", and also put
> gnulib in the same namespace, using gnulib's namespace support.
> That way, there are no macros, and, the code looks just like it
> does today, except for the "namespace gdb" wrapping.
>
> Prototyped here:
> https://github.com/palves/gdb/commits/palves/cxx-gdb-namespace

Is this something that we'd like to do for GDB 8.3? If not, then some
simpler/safer solution would be needed for the 8.3 branch.