From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6757 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2012 20:36:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 6563 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2012 20:36:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:35:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3IKZRLT007714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:27 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q3IKZPNe014044 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:26 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Jan Kratochvil , Pedro Alves , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not? References: <20120330161403.GA17891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4F832D5B.9030308@redhat.com> <20120409190519.GA524@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F833D29.4050102@redhat.com> <20120416065456.GA30097@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8ECB72.70708@redhat.com> <20120418151553.GA16768@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EDD7B.2010602@redhat.com> <20120418155354.GA17912@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120418160644.GC25623@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:36:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120418160644.GC25623@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:06:44 -0700") Message-ID: <87lilsok1e.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> After reading the whole discussion, I think that there are not enough Joel> advantages outweighing the drawbacks for us to move to C++. Things Joel> may change in the future, but I also feel that there is too much Joel> resitance (within the group of GDB Maintainers) at this time, to make Joel> such a drastic change. I am a little bit surprised by that, since Joel> I thought only one or two of us had reservations, but clearly not so. Don't give up yet, maybe I will convince Pedro :-) But if not, I think we will have to drop it and move on. Tom