Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?

[Russell Shaw]

On 02/06/12 21:10, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:47:22 +0200, Russell Shaw wrote:
>> A friend said when he was using the full STL, the delay was 8 seconds.
>
> This is too vague claim.  Which hardware he used?  Why was full STL used by
> a single CU?  Was he using gold?  And its incremental linking?

I don't know. The fact that it can happen is just something to be aware of.

He was using in a mingw or whatever environment on a windows XP box which 
probably doesn't help either.

>> Wouldn't there be far more existing GDB contributors that would
>> understand C++'ified gdb libraries, than C++ coders that know
>> anything about the internals of gdb?
>
> It is a good question, my assumptions sure may be wrong.