From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10290 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2008 15:20:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 10281 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2008 15:20:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il (HELO mtaout6.012.net.il) (84.95.2.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:02 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K4X00GYBH6YMUP0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:18:34 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Move GDB to C++ ? In-reply-to: <200808011606.16574.apoenitz@trolltech.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net> <20080801131312.GA14712@caradoc.them.org> <200808011606.16574.apoenitz@trolltech.com> 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: 2008-08/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 > From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:06:14 +0200 > > I can think of a few directions that might be interesting: > > (1) a working, full featured MI interface, > (2) integrated scripting, > (3) performance improvements. > (4) gdb-as-a-library. > > The question whether they are hard "because it's C" is open: > You will say no, I say yes, simply because high level restructuring > is more painful in C than in reasonably C++. Don't worry about what I'm going to say. Just give specific arguments why C++ will enable these directions significantly better than C. If you do that, you might be surprised by what I will have to say.