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Subject: Re: Switching to C++ by default in 4.8
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Chiheng Xu <chiheng.xu@gmail.com>, Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>, 	Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>, gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/2012 9:34 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Richard Guenther
>> <richard.guenther@gmail.com> =A0wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, and did we address all the annoyances of debugging gcc when it's
>>> compiled by a C++ compiler? ...
>>>
>>
>> Probably, if you can refrain from using some "advance" C++
>> features(namespace, template, etc.), =A0you will not have such
>> annoyances.
>
>
> To me namespaces are fundamental in terms of the advantages that
> moving to C++ can give in a large project, I would never regard
> them as some "advanced" feature to be avoided. If namespaces
> cause trouble for the debugger, that's surprising and problematic!

Indeed, the notion that 'namspace' is "advance" is troublesome.
Similarly I would find any notion that simple uses  and definitions
of templates (functions, datatypes) "advanced" a bit specious.