From: Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB in C++
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183434310.4689c646a3bd2@myaccount.bayarea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070702013529.GC6627@adacore.com>
Quoting Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>:
> > I'm in favor of switching to C++. I'm not going to argue about it if
> > others disagree, but I'll offer to do most of the work if the
> > consensus is positive.
>
> I am against this change. I'm not going to argue either, because there
> are some technical merits on both sides, and they have been discussed
> to death.
>
> However, I think that requiring a C++ compiler will make it harder
> for some users to build GDB, just because C++ compilers are not
> always as readily available as C compilers.
What currently supported hosts do not have a C++ compiler?
I think that this may have been a valid concern several years
ago, but I think the lack of C++ compilers is no longer the case.
--
Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 14:56 Michael Eager
2007-07-01 20:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-02 1:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-07-03 3:49 ` Michael Eager [this message]
2007-07-03 7:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-07-11 21:04 ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-07-02 7:21 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-07-03 3:57 ` Michael Eager
2007-07-03 7:03 ` Fabian Cenedese
2007-07-03 12:14 ` Robert Dewar
2007-07-03 19:09 ` Gary Funck
2007-07-11 19:47 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-07-11 19:59 ` Paul Koning
2007-07-11 20:41 ` Jim Blandy
2007-07-11 21:00 ` Gary Funck
2007-07-11 21:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-11 21:38 ` Robert Dewar
2007-07-12 3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-12 2:24 ` Michael Eager
2007-07-13 20:21 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-07-13 20:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-13 21:24 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-07-12 3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-11 21:11 ` Gary Funck
2007-07-02 20:21 ` David Daney
2007-07-02 20:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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