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Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger
- From: Kris Warkentin <kewarken at qnx dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:28:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger
- References: <419A2E2F.5010602@gnu.org>
Andrew Cagney wrote:
GDB is the GNU project's native debuger. While we're certainly happy
to accomodate people using GDB as either an embedded debugger or
native debugger on other systems, the need to persue GDB as a native
debugger on GNU systems must be our first priority.
How do you define GNU system? If you're looking at the OS, Linux is the
only GNU system in wide use since HURD is not mainstream. If you define
it as a system using a GNU toolchain then I don't see that you're
particularily narrowing your scope since you now include many of the
embedded systems, BSDs, some Win32 such as Cygwin and MinGW.
Could you perhaps tell us what you're trying to accomplish with this
mission statement? Are you looking to establish some sort of "level of
support priority" system for deciding which new features to add and
which bugs to fix?
cheers,
Kris