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Re: GDB in C++

From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:45:10 -0700
Subject: Re: GDB in C++
References: <46866F20.2010902@eagercon.com> <20070701205355.GC24316@caradoc.them.org> <20070702013529.GC6627@adacore.com>

Quoting Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>:

> > I'm in favor of switching to C++.  I'm not going to argue about it if
> > others disagree, but I'll offer to do most of the work if the
> > consensus is positive.
>
> I am against this change. I'm not going to argue either, because there
> are some technical merits on both sides, and they have been discussed
> to death.
>
> However, I think that requiring a C++ compiler will make it harder
> for some users to build GDB, just because C++ compilers are not
> always as readily available as C compilers.

What currently supported hosts do not have a C++ compiler?

I think that this may have been a valid concern several years
ago, but I think the lack of C++ compilers is no longer the case.

--
Michael Eager     eager@eagercon.com
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