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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple breakpoint locations
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> Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>,  gdb@sources.redhat.com
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:26 -0800
> 
> Following that link, I think I now better appreciate why full C++
> support in GDB is basically impossible: in order to decide which 'fun'
> template the call in 'main' refers to, one must try to instantiate
> each template and type-check the resulting code.  So GDB would need to
> essentially incorporate a full C++ front end.

The information emitted by the compiler (which already has a full C++
implementation) could help, couldn't it?