Re: gdb question

[David Relson]

At 11:48 AM 3/14/03, Adam Fedor wrote:


> 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...

Hi Adam,

At last I can retry my old tired incomplete hacked version of the 
gdb-4.18-unoff-objc patch.  Hallelujah!

In a more serious vein, there appear to be some build issues with last 
night's cvs snapshot.  I can send details if that'd be useful.

With an eye to a more stable foundation, are the Objective-C patches 
available directly?  What is the proper version of gdb for them?

David