PATCH: Support the new demangler written in C++

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Thu Jul 10 07:36:00 GMT 2003


Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

| On Jul 10, 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
| 
| > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
| 
| > | GDB is written in C, not C++.
| 
| > That is not under dispute.
| 
| > | it would still have dependencies on the C++
| > | compilers' run-time. 
| 
| > Yes, but that is also the case for any non-trivial C program.
| 
| But GDB already has dependencies on the C run-time, since it's written
| in C.  Bringing a C++ component disguised as a C component would
| introduce a new dependency on it.  This is the issue under debate
| here.  And, come to think of it, this is not the best forum to debate
| GDB and binutils issues :-)

Yeah, just let us hand wave about it ;-D

-- Gaby



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