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: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:57:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20161109205724.02e086af@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> 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 1478743143 15414 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2016 01:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 02:58:59 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 1c4eco-0006mH-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:57:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4ecr-0000rm-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4ecI-0000rg-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:57:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4ecH-0005DC-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:55532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4ecH-0005Cu-Fr; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDBF561; Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:57:24 -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 594082DE201; Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:57:24 -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:209318 Archived-At: On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:11 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote: > Why would we want to support it > rather than saying, "We support GDB -- use that."? Oh, and in addition to the fact that there are things like languages that lldb supports that gdb does not, that there are people who prefer it for whatever reason, and that it is shipped with some platforms that gdb is not shipped by default on: gud mode supports completely unfree debuggers. lldb is free software. It seems like bad policy to encourage the use of non-free tools by supporting them better than free tools. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com