From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27277 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 16:17:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27263 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 16:17:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 16:17:56 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DB92B79; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:17:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F142933.1060902@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:17:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathanael Nerode Cc: fche@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, hjl@lucon.org Subject: Re: FYI: A new C++ demangler References: <20030712180228.GA912@doctormoo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 > Frank Eigler said: > >>You might be accused of dogmatic monolingualism if you don't accept >>the notion that some such code may be more naturally expressed in a >>higher level language -- that could be one such reason. Another >>reason of course is the fact that it is already done and working: >>rewriting costs new effort. > > > Look, if you want to *add a build requirement* to GDB, so that it > *requires* a C++ compiler to build, then then new C++ demangler will > be fine for GDB. Fortunatly, that won't happen :-) > We *don't* want to add such a build requirement for GCC or binutils, for > very good reasons (a lot of systems don't ship with a C++ compiler). HJ > keeps proposing a *completely* demented idea, which is that > the new demangler will be used if a C++ compiler happens to be lying > around during build, and otherwise the broken demangler will be used. I > wish he'd see what's wrong with that picture. However, there is the SIM directory ..... Andrew