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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,        Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented 	methodology?
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>>>>> "xingxing" == xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> writes:

>> Actually, what I want to say is that coding is different from design.

Much of GDB actually is written in an object-oriented style.
In some cases the expression of the underlying design is odd.

It would be helpful if you were more specific.  What exactly do you
think could be improved?

We're also happy to review cleanup patches :-)

Tom