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

Mark Kettenis
2012-04-04T21:55:44Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:39 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> To C++ or not to C++? Unfortunately the discussion was here
> Jan> already before and I am aware several contributors are not welcome
> Jan> with it, I think it does not need to affect readability of C code
> Jan> much, there is not enough workforce to rewrite all the GDB code
> Jan> into C++ style anyway. Still C++ would help a lot, some kinds of
> Jan> bugs are not solvable without it.
>
> I'm strongly in favor of C++ for reasons I'll lay out below.

And my position on this has not changed: I'm strongly against. C++ is
horrible language that should never have been invented.