From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12946 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2003 18:02:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12872 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2003 18:02:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.153) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2003 18:02:39 -0000 Received: from doctormoo (syr-24-24-18-148.twcny.rr.com [24.24.18.148]) by ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h6CI2Us4000935; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from neroden by doctormoo with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19bOhY-0000El-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:02:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:02:00 -0000 To: fche@redhat.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, hjl@lucon.org Subject: Re: FYI: A new C++ demangler Message-ID: <20030712180228.GA912@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Nathanael Nerode X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 Frank Eigler said: >You might be accused of dogmatic monolingualism if you don't accept >the notion that some such code may be more naturally expressed in a >higher level language -- that could be one such reason. Another >reason of course is the fact that it is already done and working: >rewriting costs new effort. Look, if you want to *add a build requirement* to GDB, so that it *requires* a C++ compiler to build, then then new C++ demangler will be fine for GDB. We *don't* want to add such a build requirement for GCC or binutils, for very good reasons (a lot of systems don't ship with a C++ compiler). HJ keeps proposing a *completely* demented idea, which is that the new demangler will be used if a C++ compiler happens to be lying around during build, and otherwise the broken demangler will be used. I wish he'd see what's wrong with that picture. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html