On 04/10/2012 12:23 AM, Stan Shebs wrote:
On 4/4/12 1:47 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
I don't believe we should convert all of GDB to C++. In particular I
think gdbserver should remain as pure C, and likewise any code shared
between gdbserver and gdb should be kept as such.
I don't know that it matters that much for GDBserver anymore. When giant C++ apps like Firefox are running on handheld devices, it's a little hard to see that a handful of C++ library functions and and EH data section in GDBserver are going to make it or break it on targets that people are developing for today.
You're forgetting about all those uclibc (and musl's and other libc's of the world) targets
that most probably don't even have a display, and some which don't support C++, and that
still need to be debugged. A debugger agent is a system component that
should aim lower than a bloated browser. Again, even the Android NDK doesn't support
C++ exceptions properly (or maybe it does nowadays, but it didn't only a couple years ago),
one of the biggest justifications for a C++ move.