Announcing PathDB

[Garrett Cooper]

2010/5/29 "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>:
>
> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core software
> technology and thought the BSD community might be interested in PathDB.
>  Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers private access to the source, but
> never received any feedback.  Now we're asking more people to please test
> and tell us what you think.
>
> Source
> git clone git://git.pathscale.com/path64/debugger.git
> Note : We have a small patch which makes it build with gcc-4.3+ that should
> be pushed soon.
>
> License (GPLv3, *BUT* if we get a lot of positive feedback from the BSD
> community we can change this any time - see below)
>
> Benefits
>   * Very well designed
>   * Robust and well tested
>   * Similar interface as GDB
>   * Commercially supported
>   * Recently revived roadmap (We're evaluating things like gpu support,
> reverse debugging, latest dwarf standards, tight integration with compiler
> for optimized debugging.. etc)
>
> Promise - Give us a hand in testing and improving and we'll relicense to a
> more permissive license.
>
> Questions/comments - Say hi on #pathscale - irc.freenode.net or email me
> directly

Hi Christopher,
    Have you spoken with Doug Rabson about this? He has work which is
to going to meet a similar end as PathDB could provide.
    Also, it might be a good time and a good idea to consider going to
one of the BSD conferences and presenting PathDB as a useful
alternative to gdb (especially if folks provide some degree of
interest in your work).
    I'll take a look at it if I have time.
Thanks,
-Garrett