From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7419 invoked by alias); 24 May 2016 11:53:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 7405 invoked by uid 89); 24 May 2016 11:53:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*bob, bob X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 24 May 2016 11:52:54 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E52BC0578CA; Tue, 24 May 2016 11:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u4OBqplW013139; Tue, 24 May 2016 07:52:52 -0400 Subject: Re: GDB now builds as a C++ program by default To: Bob Rossi References: <571808F3.8060505@redhat.com> <20160524114349.GA12826@linux> Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <19ba25ea-a415-4c38-bfc5-86dfd7722ab5@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 11:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160524114349.GA12826@linux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 On 05/24/2016 12:43 PM, Bob Rossi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:55:47PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: >> I'm happy to report that GDB git master now defaults to building with >> a C++ compiler. > > Do you have a time frame for when GDB will be required to use C++ > to compile? > I'd like to do that soon after the next release, around June/July, making the next release the last one that supports building gdb with a C compiler. > Looking at https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/cxx-conversion, I see > that you will require C++ 98 or 03. Will you enforce that when > compiling? If you mean with a "-std=" switch, I don't plan to. > I ask because I work on CGDB, a GDB front end, and it's written in C so > that it can be compiled anywhere that GDB can. I'd like to transition > CGDB to C++ but only want to do so after GDB is and using the same C++ > standard features. Thanks, Pedro Alves