Re: Will GDB be rewritten in C++ (again)

Phi Debian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <CAJOr74iQhesGmz7_7DZXhPbVD6t3QWGa+i-x+C_ev4_bPqgEcg@mail.gmail.com>
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
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