Re: Will GDB be rewritten in C++ (again)
Phi Debian <[email protected]>
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Thanx Joel, I since then built the 8.0 and you right this is all c++ compiled, mangling the all thing in libgdb.a, double checked with nm(1). Cheers Phi On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Joel Brobecker <[email protected]> wrote: >> So my question is, does this rewrite of GDB in C++ has been shelved or >> is is still going? > > Starting with GDB 8.0, building GDB now requires a C++-11 compiler. > With 7.12, it tries to use a C++ compiler by default, but you can > force it back to using a C compiler at configure time. > > -- > Joel