From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4023 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2010 11:54:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 3984 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2010 11:54:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f169.google.com) (209.85.214.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:54:18 +0000 Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so735958iwn.0 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:54:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.125.213 with SMTP id z21mr9487982ibr.98.1276689256285; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.145.72 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented methodology? From: xingxing pan To: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 When meeting so many structs and function pointer in the source codes, dose anyone have the thought to redesign and implement GDB using Object-Oriented methodology? Since one of the debugger's functions is to slow down the execution of the debugee, implementing GDB by using Object-Oriented language will not observably affect the performance. Open Source is a good idea. But it seems open the process of design is much more important. After all, the development of a software is a process, not just only a result presented by the source codes.With the source codes, one can hardly see the design process.