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Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
- From: John Gilmore <gnu at toad dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:42:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
- References: <20120330161403.GA17891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4F832D5B.9030308@redhat.com> <20121122184637.GA29474@host2.jankratochvil.net>
> For most embedded Linux kernel targets it will be enough to build the standard
> fully featured gdbserver with static libstdc++ (making it only ~2x larger).
It becomes ~2x larger for what benefit?
> There will be also separate minimal gdbserver in plain C.
> ... This minimal server has no
> need for non-stop/multi-inferior etc., it will be created by stripping down
> the current one; but in fact one can be also easily code it from scratch.
Why in heaven's name would you take working code that's in the release
today, and "strip it down" to be less functional? What's wrong with
continuing to ship it merely the way it is?
John