From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18613 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 19:03:45 -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 18601 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 19:03:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 19:03:45 -0000 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (aoliva.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.10]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h6FJ3eK17619; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:03:41 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6FJ3eWU009736; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:03:40 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6FJ3dUg009732; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:03:39 -0300 To: Gabriel Dos Reis Cc: Andrew Cagney , 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: Alexandre Oliva Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00167.txt.bz2 On Jul 15, 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > 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. I don't think the issue is about using C++ for system programming. The issue is about having to force every user of libiberty to start linking programs that link with libiberty using $(CXX) instead of just $(CC). This would be a very incompatible and, IMHO, undesirable change. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer