Re: [PATCH] [gdb/tui] Factor out tui_noscroll_window et al

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 11/13/23 18:09, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:
> 
> Tom> Evidently, this introduces multiple inheritance.
> 
> Tom> Here ( https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#CandCxx ) we read:
> 
> FWIW you can't really go by the GCC conventions.  GCC is a lot more
> conservative about C++ than GDB is.
> 

I came across it via 
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20GDB-C-Coding-Standards#C.2B-.2B--specific_coding_conventions 
:
...
C++-specific coding conventions

GDB follows GCC's C++ coding conventions, diverging only on finer 
detail, as we find necessary.

See these documents, which have extensive detail:

     GCC's C++ Language Conventions (scroll down a bit)

     GCC Coding Conventions Rationale and Discussion

A point where we diverge is in permitting the use of C++ exceptions.

...

So I suppose this is one of those finer details ;)

Thanks,
- Tom

> Tom> I think the newly introduced classes are close enough to the traits
> Tom> concept described above for the multiple inheritance to be acceptable.
> 
> Makes sense to me.  And FWIW GDB already uses multiple inheritance.
> 
> Tom