Re: Defending GCC considered futile

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I think everyone working on it does, in the sense that lldb should
  > include any functionality that's useful in a debugger, which
  > presumably will be a superset of current gdb features.

This indicates that it is a potential problem.

  > Beyond that I can say that on one platform (Mac OS X using clang 3.5)
  > where the available gdb throws so many <optimized out> values for
  > function arguments and local variables as to be nearly useless in
  > debugging code optimized to the production configuration, lldb usually
  > can tell actual values and is thus much more useful.

This means it is more than a potential problem.

The possible harm is to replace copylefted GNU package
with noncopylefted code.  They must have worked for a long long time
to replace the capabilities GDB already had.

What we should do about this, I don't know yet.  I will talk
with the GDB developers and seee what they think.

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