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Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:55:19 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
- References: <20120330161403.GA17891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:39 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> To C++ or not to C++? Unfortunately the discussion was here
> Jan> already before and I am aware several contributors are not welcome
> Jan> with it, I think it does not need to affect readability of C code
> Jan> much, there is not enough workforce to rewrite all the GDB code
> Jan> into C++ style anyway. Still C++ would help a lot, some kinds of
> Jan> bugs are not solvable without it.
>
> I'm strongly in favor of C++ for reasons I'll lay out below.
And my position on this has not changed: I'm strongly against. C++ is
horrible language that should never have been invented.