From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478737565 11577 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2016 00:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, perry@piermont.com To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 01:26:01 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 1c4dB4-0005nl-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:25:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dB7-0000qG-Ae for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dAD-0000oy-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dAC-0001f5-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dA4-0001YV-Fv; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dA3-0005cB-KL; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:24:11 -0500 In-reply-to: <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:17:04 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:209313 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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."? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.