On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: > On 4/13/2012 9:34 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Richard Guenther >> <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Oh, and did we address all the annoyances of debugging gcc when it's >>> compiled by a C++ compiler? ... >>> >> >> Probably, if you can refrain from using some "advance" C++ >> features(namespace, template, etc.), you will not have such >> annoyances. > > > To me namespaces are fundamental in terms of the advantages that > moving to C++ can give in a large project, I would never regard > them as some "advanced" feature to be avoided. If namespaces > cause trouble for the debugger, that's surprising and problematic!
Indeed, the notion that 'namspace' is "advance" is troublesome. Similarly I would find any notion that simple uses and definitions of templates (functions, datatypes) "advanced" a bit specious.
