Re: gdb question

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 09:39 AM, David Relson wrote:

> At 09:54 AM 3/14/03, David Relson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the current state of Objective-C support in gdb?
> >
> > The last I knew (a year or so ago), there were some patches for 
> > gdb-5.x that provided partial support and Apple was "working on" 
> > having their changes merged into the mainline gdb code.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > David
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I've answered my own question.  A google search found Adam's 
> patch of last August, so I downloaded gdb and started the 
> build/patch/build process.  After getting that started, I took a look 
> at the GDB mailing list archive at the RedHat site and found recent 
> messages about Objective-C.  _Then_ I took a look at the code in the 
> cvs snapshot and found the Objective-C support _is_ there.

Complete support is not there yet, however. I'm still waiting for a few 
patches to be approved. The gdb maintainer, however, has stated 
implicitly that it should work in the 5.4 release...