Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger

[Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com>]

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