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Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Following that link, I think I now better appreciate why full C++
> support in GDB is basically impossible: in order to decide which 'fun'
> template the call in 'main' refers to, one must try to instantiate
> each template and type-check the resulting code.  So GDB would need to
> essentially incorporate a full C++ front end.

It's even worse.  You can put the function templates in different source
files so that two function calls using the same parameters instantiate
functions from different templates, all in the same program.

Andreas.

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