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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <daniel.jacobowitz@gmail.com>,        Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,        Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> Exporting the functionality of the libraries to scripting languages
Doug> (e.g., python) through these libraries would involve more of a C API
Doug> than C++.

I think you can wrap a C++ library in Python just fine, especially since
we're writing all the bindings manually anyhow.

Tom