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Re: GDB in C++
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.
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