From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8641 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 18:03:11 -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 8613 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 18:03:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uniton.integrable-solutions.net) (62.212.99.186) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 18:03:10 -0000 Received: from uniton.integrable-solutions.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uniton.integrable-solutions.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h6FHwEeR027785; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:58:14 +0200 Received: (from gdr@localhost) by uniton.integrable-solutions.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h6FHwDUq027784; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:58:13 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: uniton.integrable-solutions.net: gdr set sender to gdr@integrable-solutions.net using -f To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Nathanael Nerode , 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> <3F142933.1060902@redhat.com> From: Gabriel Dos Reis In-Reply-To: <3F142933.1060902@redhat.com> Organization: Integrable Solutions Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00165.txt.bz2 Nathanael Nerode wrote | > 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. I think the completely demented idea is insisting that "lot of systems don't ship with a C++ compiler" and continuing to demande to continue a broken implementation. Andrew Cagney wrote: | However, there is the SIM directory ..... Yes. Apparently Nathanael doesn't seem to understand that C++ can be used productively for system programming. -- Gaby