From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7984 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2004 17:35:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7708 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2004 17:35:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (209.128.65.135) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 16 Nov 2004 17:35:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 29496 invoked by uid 10); 16 Nov 2004 17:35:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 32464 invoked by uid 500); 16 Nov 2004 17:35:28 -0000 From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB is the GNU project's native debugger References: <419A2E2F.5010602@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <419A2E2F.5010602@gnu.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > 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. > > Do we all agree with this? While I think we all agree with this in some sense, I think you should spell out where you are going with this. For example, it would be easy to use this statement as the motivation for removing features required for using gdb for embedded systems, or on Windows. I don't think that would be appropriate. If you want to state that, where there is a direct and immediate conflict between the needs of GNU systems and the needs of other systems, the needs of the GNU systems take priority, I could support that. If you want to state that this applies to considerations of resources, and of which parts of gdb to mark obsolescent, I could not support that. Ian