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Re: GDB to C++ issue: deletion


On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:53:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Still, I think that it is a misrepresentation to say that GDB code
> cannot be understood by "mere mortals".  Most problems, as far as I
> remember from questions posted here, are about the high-level
> architectural aspects, asked by those who want to add support for some
> novel or unusual platform.  People who need to fix a bug in existing
> code normally don't have much trouble understanding it.

For what it's worth, that's not my experience at all.  Contributors
have a lot of trouble with the GDB code.  One of the biggest problems
is cleanups, which is one reason I'm listening with interest to this
conversation.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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