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From: | Daniel Colascione |
Subject: | Re: lldb support |
Date: | Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:26:44 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 |
On 11/09/2016 04:24 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> It's a debugger that does the same job as GDB, but it's based on the > Clang and LLVM toolkit for looking at the world, not binutils, GCC, etc. > Compared to GDB, LLDB has a different and (IMHO) uglier command syntax, > but both LLDB and GDB support the MI protocol. Why would we want to support it rather than saying, "We support GDB -- use that."?
All the usual reasons people prefer tool A over tool B: compatibility with a specific environment, personal customizations, familiarity, and personal preference. LLDB is free software. We should support it.
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