feature request: native GDB as new debug adapter

[sleeptightAnsiC]

Hi,

This is a dupe of williamboman/mason.nvim#1560 from the main plugin repo, I hope you don't mind.

As of GDB 14.0 it can be used as DAP when invoked with gdb --interpreter=dap which makes it a perfect cross platform debug adapter. It also seems to outperform any C/C++/Rust alternatives that are currently available in mason (codelldb, cpptools, etc) when it comes to startup and response times, at least on my Linux/Windows machine.

The problem with GDB is that it has no dedicated binary distribution. I was only able to find packages with GDB included/embedded as part of the package but not standalone binary which as I understand is a huge bummer because Mason relies mostly on Github releases.

Would it be ever possible to bring GDB into Mason ?

Upstream: https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/

What is GDB?
GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.

What Languages does GDB Support?
GDB supports the following languages (in alphabetical order):
Ada Assembly C C++ D Fortran Go Objective-C OpenCL Modula-2 Pascal Rust