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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2011 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com>
To:        freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com>
Subject:   PathDB (non GPL/GNU debugger) ported to FreeBSD !
Message-ID:  <921347.69389.qm@web113510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DD38498.7080401@pathscale.com>

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Hello...=0A=0AI caught this email on another list but it's directly=0Arelev=
ant to to us and as I've seen so many complaints=0Aabout the (lame) state o=
f our GNU debugger, I am sure=0Athere is sufficient interest.=0A=0APlease t=
est and submit feedback to cbergstrom@ as=0Arequested in his email.=0A=0A(F=
WIW, I suggested that Dtrace support would be=0Aawesome).=0A________=0AFrom=
: Christopher Bergstr=F6m <cbergstrom AT NOSPAM pathscale DOT com>=0A=0APat=
hDB (debugger) has been ported to FreeBSD.=0A=0ASummary:  x86/x86_64 debugg=
er with the goal to drop-in replace gdb.=0AWe recently finished some heavy =
refactoring and now focusing on=0Aimproving performance, *robustness*, scal=
ability (clusters/multicore=0Asystems), DWARF4, OS portability and supporte=
d targets.  PathDB has a=0Alibrary based design with a cli interface doing =
direct function calls.=0AUsing C-bindings it should be fairly trivial to ex=
tend or add a new=0Afront-end in python or other scripting language.=0A=0AS=
ource=0Agit clone git://github.com/path64/debugger.git=0A=0ACurrent status =
(heavy development - expect bugs)=0AGDB test suite results as of today (A l=
ot of timeouts and at=0Aa glance it seems like a lot of trivial CLI stuff)=
=0AFAIL: 747=0APASS: 477=0A=0ALog : https://gist.github.com/b44f708cc224209=
1bc20=0A---=0AMan page - http://www.pathscale.com/docs/pathdb.html=0AUser g=
uide (Needs to be updated) -=0Ahttp://www.pathscale.com/docs/PathDB_UserGui=
de.pdf=0A=0AWe'd love feedback and more testers.=0A=0ABug reports can be se=
nt to me (cbergstrom) directly or=0Afeel free to say hi on irc=0A=0A#pathsc=
ale - irc.freenode.net=0A



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