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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Project Archer <archer@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [Archer] C++ draft
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110627212246.GJ11080@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tybb7zjz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> Do you find it reasonably convincing?  If not, why not?  What can be
> improved?  Are there other good initial targets for conversion?  Are
> there lurking problems of which I am unaware?

I can see the technical merits towards moving to C++, and I'm OK
with that (not super enthusiastic, but maybe all I need is some
time taking advantage of C++ over C).

I have two fears:

  - Not having access to a good C++ compiler on some of the exotic
    platforms out there.  Getting a g++ installed by some of us at
    AdaCore who know GCC will take me a bit of time.

  - The debugging situation; how well can we debug C++? I'm pretty
    sure that we've given up on stabs, but we're still doing work
    on eliminating stabs from platforms such as AIX for instance.
    It's tough to say how far we are, except that we're hoping that
    we're getting closer (Tristan is working on and off on that).

I think "FUD" #1 can be dismissed as AdaCore's problem, and we'll
take care of that. I'd like to be reassured that Fear #2 is
unjustified, and that you will have reasonable functionality even
with GCC 4.5 (that's what we use at AdaCore, and we'll probably
stay with that for another 18months).

-- 
Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-27 21:08 Tom Tromey
2011-06-27 21:23 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-06-29 19:55   ` [Archer] " Tom Tromey
2011-06-29 21:47     ` [Archer] " Joel Brobecker
2011-06-28  4:33 ` Matt Rice
2011-06-28  8:21 ` Yao Qi
2011-06-28 12:21   ` Gary Benson
2011-06-28 17:08     ` Matt Rice
2011-06-28 17:36     ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-06-29 20:08     ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-29 20:06   ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-30  6:06     ` Yao Qi
2011-09-26 21:01       ` Jim Blandy
2011-06-29 18:52 ` Stan Shebs
2011-06-29 19:03   ` [Archer] " Joel Brobecker

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