From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,31b8879c52cdbc65 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Gnat on OpenVMS Date: 1999/05/23 Message-ID: <7i98qg$dhr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 481187515 References: <7hshfq$5tc$1@front1.grolier.fr> <7i6aur$i1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7i74fa$9e2$1@front6.grolier.fr> <1999May22.193351.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x27.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.81.85 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun May 23 16:02:24 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1999May22.193351.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > There may be some economics at work here, as GDB folk are > accustomed to moving readily between many operating systems so > long as they are all some form of Unix. No, they don't need to be some form of Unix, GDB is being used successfully on many non-Unix operating systems. Indeed all my own personal work is on OS/2, where GDB works just fine. I think it is definitely true that people who move between many targets prefer tools that are uniform across targets. We have a couple of users of the VMS version who simply have a requirement to produce a VMS version of their software, but they also work on many other platforms. People in this position are of course far happier to use GDB than the VMS debugger, since they do not want to learn idiosyncratic target dependent tools for each target. Actually I see nothing specially unixy about GDBTK (or DDD for that matter). The whole point of TK or GTK is to provide target independence for GUI's. There may be things you don't like about GDBTK, but I doubt they are specifically unix related in any sense. Equally there may be things you like, but there again, I doubt there is any real unix involvement. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---