From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:06:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20161108220613.6ab42107@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478660846 23852 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2016 03:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 03:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 04:07:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4JDq-00013U-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:06:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4JDt-0002zq-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:06:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4JDM-0002yS-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4JDL-0002KD-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:53451) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4JDL-0002K5-2F; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A824EB; Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:06:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8085A2DE1B9; Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:06:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209301 Archived-At: On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:54:16 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote: > > But if new code was written, it would be accepted then. > > Would you please remind me what lldb does? > It is a free debugger. The controversy was that you felt it competed with gdb. However, gud has support for proprietary debuggers, so it seems unfortunate not to be supporting a free one, if a non-GNU one. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com