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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Allow C++ or C99 in sim/*?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 00:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2B02B8.3020906@redhat.com> (raw)

Hello,

Back in '95ish, I adopted ISO C 90 as its programming language for PSIM. 
  My decision was based on two assumptions: a C++ compiler would be more 
buggy than C; the C language would be easier for a compiler to optimize 
than C++; no one in their right mind still used K&R C.  Over time, the 
ISO C 90 assumption was gradually extended to other simulators (via 
sim/igen and sim/common) and that led to the sim/ directory requiring 
ISO C.  This was all well before gdb/ adopted ISO C 90.  History has 
shown this to be a good decision.

Now, many years later, I think its time to revisit this:

Should the simulator directories allow more modern languages?  I can see 
several options:

- C99 which would allow C++ comments:
	// a comment
and declarations anywhere:
	foo (); int i; bar ()
and access to int32 et.al. types.  What else?

- C++ which would also allow access to objects and (ulgh?) templates 
(replacement for the sim-endian macro stuff?)

- Oh what the heck, Java and gcj ...

C99 should be a done deal.  While I hate C++, making GDB developers 
debug C++ code would be a good thing (TM), and there are a few chunks of 
the simulator code that really shouldn't be C.  Java would be, well, 
interesting.

Thoughts?  Coding standards?

Andrew


             reply	other threads:[~2003-08-02  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-02  0:16 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-08-02  0:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-08-02  0:47 ` David Carlton
     [not found] ` <mailpost.1059783391.21631@news-sj1-1>
2003-08-02  1:30   ` cgd
2003-08-05  4:25     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-08-05  4:27       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-08-02  1:11 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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