From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4639 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2008 19:01:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 4626 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jul 2008 19:01:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:01:36 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m6AJ1U8I020198; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m6AJ1UMQ007185; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:01:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200807101901.m6AJ1UMQ007185@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: stanshebs@earthlink.net CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net> (message from Stan Shebs on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:46:15 -0700) Subject: Re: Move GDB to C++ ? References: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net> 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:46:15 -0700 > From: Stan Shebs > > As many know, there is a project afoot to investigate the recoding of > GCC from C into C++. I believe the C++ idea was briefly touched on for > GDB at the summit, although I don't remember much discussion. Anyway, > this would be a good time to start thinking about it, and if people are > generally in favor of the idea, we can start small by tweaking the > sources to be C++-friendly, avoiding keywords and so forth; GCC has a > new warning flag -Wcxx-compat that can help. I think this is an absolutely retarded idea. C++ is a horrible programming language.