Re: Using C++ code inside gdb

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:57:15 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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On 10 Oct 2015 17:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 09 Oct 2015 10:41, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On 10/09/2015 07:08 AM, Ashutosh wrote:
> > > Regarding using C++, I just hit upon the following conversation on the
> > > gdb-patches list:
> > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00202.html
> > > 
> > > where it seems that there's some work going on compiling gdb sources
> > > with g++. Any idea if this support is available in some form already
> > > in gdb 7.10 or when is it planned to be released?
> > 
> > The status in the wiki page linked from that url is accurate.
> > 
> > GDB nowadays builds and links in C++ when configured
> > with --enable-build-with-cxx, though that still spews a ton of warnings.
> > There's been constant incremental progress so we'll get there eventually.
> > 
> > No release has been marked as the one where we'll switch to C++ as
> > default language -- it'll get done when it's done; though the sooner
> > the better.  :-)
> 
> even if the C++ frontend is used, and C++ is the default language, that doesn't
> mean that all C++ functionality will be accepted.  there are a lot of design
> patterns and C++ APIs that are generally bad, and gdb is meant to be portable.
> so i'd expect there will be guidelines put together as to acceptable standards
> base (C11/C14/etc...) as well as headers and interfaces that are permitted and
> ones that are banned.

seems like gcc has already done this:
	https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html

probably be best to try and follow that, or at least use it as a base.
-mike

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