Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger

[Paul Breed <pbreed@netburner.com>]

>- arguably, adopting any bias which inhibits the applicability of GNU's
>tools, actually encourages/requires the development of likely proprietary
>alternatives in contradiction of GNU's goals, and indirectly reducing
>opportunity to fund continued advancements, (which seems quite counter
>productive overall).

Bingo.... I currently use the gcc toolchain to support an embedded product 
suite.

3 years ago 50% of my customers were screaming for linux hosted versions 
of  our
development environment, libraries and tools, we did that...
Today out of several thousand developers using our solution only 2 are 
hosting on linux.
Out gcc, and gdb tools are the only contact many of these people have with 
the FSF concept

I need a good debugging solution, if it can't be GDB then it will be a 
proprietary solution,
I'd much rather it be GDB, but a FSF isolationist approach to GDB will be 
counter productive.

Paul
CTO NetBurner....