Re: C++ conversion status update
Yao Qi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Pedro Alves <[email protected]> writes: > Good news, we've reached a significant milestone on the C++ conversion -- on > a few important hosts, GDB now builds cleanly as a C++ program with no > hacks. These are at least: > > - Aarch64 GNU/Linux > - ARM GNU/Linux > - x86 GNU/Linux > - x86_64 GNU/Linux > - x86_64 Mingw-w64 > > In addition, the testsuite shows no regressions in C++ mode, compared to C mode. > We need a wiki page to track these hosts on which we enabled C++ build. Like this gcc wiki page, https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CppBuildStatus or we can track them in existing https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/cxx-conversion wiki page. > The plan I propose next is to default to building in C++ mode on hosts > that are known to build cleanly in C++ mode. Or rather, change the default > to be C++ mode, _except_ for hosts/ports that haven't been converted > yet. I prefer the latter. > Then, as ports get converted, one by one they'll be removed from > the "can't do C++ yet" list. That gives us a defined stopping point -- when > the list becomes empty, and after a reasonable period, we can decide to remove > support for building in C mode and start making use of C++ features. That sounds good to me. > > The question I have is which hosts (Architecture + OS combination) people > care about that still need C++ conversion work and thus should be on > that list? How about all linux and mingw hosts? assuming that xtensa can be converted. > > This is where anyone can help! > > I've created the "users/palves/cxx-conversion" branch (on sourceware.org) > where I committed a patch that implements the list idea. I filled in > a set of hosts that I _thought_ wouldn't build, but I don't really know > for sure. > > So I'd like to invite people to try to build master on their favorite > host with --enable-build-with-cxx, and report back the result. We didn't hear anything on this yet, but we can't wait for it forever. I'd like to turn on C++ build for linux and mingw hosts in default after the 7.11 release branch is created. -- Yao (齐尧)