From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lldb support Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:27:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> <735f8965-609a-d0c2-82bc-19a2393186b6@dancol.org> <867f8412qs.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479306506 13630 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2016 14:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:28:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 15:28:19 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 1c71CC-0001ly-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:28:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c71CE-0005ka-Fq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c71Bd-0005kI-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c71BY-0004gS-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43763 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c71BY-0004f9-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c71BT-0003pY-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:27:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:wGiPNXFikt9zoPBJDSOFHnNO0oI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:209436 Archived-At: >> If a volunteer is willing to give us code to support using lldb, does it then >> become a question of which uses to _not facilitate_? That's really what I >> reacting to. I totally understand not *making an effort* to support something >> that might inhibit the growth of gdb; but if we're in the position of >> receiving code to support lldb, then should the same argument be used to deny >> its acceptance. Or is this not what you're saying? > Such code to support LLDB exists. > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/emacs/files/extrapatch-lldb-gud.el?view=log > > It's available now for Emacs users on at least one (free) operating system. This is the patch that was retracted from the LLVM repository because of copyright issues, IIRC. So, it's clearly not an option for inclusion into Emacs. Stefan