From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:26:44 -0800 Message-ID: <735f8965-609a-d0c2-82bc-19a2393186b6@dancol.org> 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=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478737653 19317 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2016 00:27:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:27:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, perry@piermont.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 01:27:29 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 1c4dD7-0003lX-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dDA-0001ok-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dCc-0001of-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dCZ-0003U1-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:49342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dCY-0003TJ-QU; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:26:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:Cc:References:To:Subject; bh=tCeAkZMB/adA3blBDE7j7JAqLlsecB39AyJda4Cqiu0=; b=Uo/ilv/9xL0AEekOSF9D5Mq0SIJuY8GzvTDpeaxsCmIEPJYcyvXAcKEj4fneLsVv/nXLsE4WvLqusa8avJZg1tzLzkGtJK/TuThtiAJ+KT6+yEkvAgkj0meo7omL0b874qutXkF2WQzTXFcE/4A1jfUtr59s88KNuiRsYRxqR06kZI/0iXaViZ71bhG82X0CPbBnLIDTp/nauCxXz02TFfVtwo4Jv5ehI7CzPb22svmJai92ISa2KiuLMkdHGMh04fnCezbg/fDfbse0aWohXRkGv8RhCwLvuPTEQlCniqbthrWqxujkeP6umFXYke93NMidKmxbW0WkF4eSrZyY3Q==; Original-Received: from c-73-97-199-232.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([73.97.199.232] helo=[192.168.1.173]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dCX-0003pw-Dd; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:26:45 -0800 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 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:209314 Archived-At: On 11/09/2016 04:24 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > It's a debugger that does the same job as GDB, but it's based on the > > Clang and LLVM toolkit for looking at the world, not binutils, GCC, etc. > > Compared to GDB, LLDB has a different and (IMHO) uglier command syntax, > > but both LLDB and GDB support the MI protocol. > > Why would we want to support it > rather than saying, "We support GDB -- use that."? All the usual reasons people prefer tool A over tool B: compatibility with a specific environment, personal customizations, familiarity, and personal preference. LLDB is free software. We should support it.