Move GDB to C++ ?

[Robert Dewar]

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> I think you're falling into a trap common for planning large transitions.
> It seems reasonable to prepare of list of points, and compare alternatives
> on each point. However, I never saw this work, 

I have seen it work many times, and managed several transitions of
this type ...

> Most transitions I saw involved:
> 1. A few folks pushing for specific solution that improves on the current
> status quo.
> 2. Other folks expressing opinions like "we absolutely need XXX"

Sounds like they were badly mismanaged
> 
> So, here, what are your most important concerns? Do you see those concerns can
> be mitigated, or not?

> The problem is the book named "The C++ Programming Language" went through at 
> least 3 revisions, presumably with extra help of professional editors. Do we want
> to beat that? And why newcomers who already read this book should read the
> documentation for our non-standard mechanisms.

Well I don't know the code well enough, but what exactly do you mean
by non-standard here---not conforming to the C standard??? The GDB code
I *have* looked at all seems like fairly standard C to me!
> 
> - Volodya