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

Tom Tromey
2012-05-18T19:36:18Z

>>>>> "Paul" == <Paul_Koning@Dell.com> writes:

Tom> For example, look at the Python layer. Despite patch review and our
Tom> knowledge of the issues, we still have error-checking and
Tom> reference-counting bugs in the code. You can go through the list
Tom> archives and find them.

Paul> How would C++ help with reference counting bugs? I could see how it
Paul> might (or might not) help with the subset related to error handling
Paul> that can be made clearer with exceptions. But the reference counting
Paul> errors I remember were straight algorithmic mistakes that, as far as I
Paul> can see, would have existed in the exact same form if the algorithm
Paul> had been expressed in C++.

We'd use RAII to ensure that refcounts were automatically managed by the
C++ compiler.

Tom