From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127079 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2017 14:54:25 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 126867 invoked by uid 89); 2 Aug 2017 14:54:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:54:22 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC6556C40; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yMvxuKo0tiTl; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AB556C3D; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A8D2F8305B; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 07:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:54:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Phi Debian Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Will GDB be rewritten in C++ (again) Message-ID: <20170802145418.pqe6a7tmw4nrecjp@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 > So my question is, does this rewrite of GDB in C++ has been shelved or > is is still going? Starting with GDB 8.0, building GDB now requires a C++-11 compiler. With 7.12, it tries to use a C++ compiler by default, but you can force it back to using a C compiler at configure time. -- Joel