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Re: Move GDB to C++ ?

> From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= <apoenitz@trolltech.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:06:14 +0200
> 
> I can think of a few directions that might be interesting:
> 
>   (1) a working, full featured MI interface,
>   (2) integrated scripting,
>   (3) performance improvements.
>   (4) gdb-as-a-library.
> 
> The question whether they are hard "because it's C" is open:
> You will say no, I say yes, simply because high level restructuring
> is more painful in C than in reasonably C++.

Don't worry about what I'm going to say.  Just give specific arguments
why C++ will enable these directions significantly better than C.  If
you do that, you might be surprised by what I will have to say.
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