From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1006 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2008 14:04:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 993 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2008 14:04:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hoat.troll.no (HELO hoat.troll.no) (62.70.27.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:46 +0000 Received: from hoat.troll.no (tedur.troll.no [62.70.27.154]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ED8C20A4D for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:03:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gar.trolltech.de (gar.trolltech.de [10.4.0.24]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2032120A47 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:03:44 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Move GDB to C++ ? Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:04:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net> <20080801131312.GA14712@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808011606.16574.apoenitz@trolltech.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-08/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On Friday 01 August 2008 15:46:25 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > So do I, but what new places are we talking about? Until now, I fail > to see even a single direction in which someone would like to go, > while the fact that GDB is written in C makes that hard. I can think of a few directions that might be interesting: (1) a working, full featured MI interface, (2) integrated scripting, (3) performance improvements. (4) gdb-as-a-library. The question whether they are hard "because it's C" is open: You will say no, I say yes, simply because high level restructuring is more painful in C than in reasonably C++. Andr=C3=A9