Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?

Joel Brobecker
2012-04-18T16:07:21Z

> We can talk about the C gdbserver, I believe it can be forked from
> the current codebase and removed almost everything there, including
> threading support. But I do not have experience with new
> architectures bootstrapping myself.

I we are going to share GDBserver and GDB (understand making GDBserver
a library that GDB uses), I do not think that having a forked copy
of GDBserver in C is a good idea. I'd much rather we evaluate the
concerns of linking with the C++ runtime, for instance.

After reading the whole discussion, I think that there are not enough
advantages outweighing the drawbacks for us to move to C++. Things
may change in the future, but I also feel that there is too much
resitance (within the group of GDB Maintainers) at this time, to make
such a drastic change. I am a little bit surprised by that, since
I thought only one or two of us had reservations, but clearly not so.

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Joel