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Re: Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented methodology?
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: xingxing pan <forandom at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:42:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented methodology?
- References: <AANLkTimffHXNNqQdr3QYa2xkL7dv33LuiCs1dtxuLBD4@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:54:16 +0200, xingxing pan wrote:
> When meeting so many structs and function pointer in the source codes,
> dose anyone have the thought to redesign and implement GDB using
> Object-Oriented methodology?
See the last discussion:
Move GDB to C++ ?
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-07/msg00077.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-08/msg00004.html
There is an ongoing work to make it at least possible:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ArcherBranchManagement
-> archer-ratmice-compile-Wc++-compat
This idea is not new.
Thanks,
Jan