On: How DWARF Works

[jonathrg]

Is GPL really an impediment for someone developing a GDB frontend?

[jcalabro → jonathrg]

I don't think so since you could do a front end over DAP, right? No linking required therefore. IANAL

[immibis → jcalabro]

It was added well after GDB's design was set. Only when LLVM brought a permissively licensed competitor did the FSF start opening up its toolchain to not be left out in the race to the bottom.