Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support.

Michael Snyder
2002-10-23T21:37:18Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:36:08PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > >>> - error ("no args, no `this'");
> > >
> > >>>> + error ("no args, no %s", name);
> > >
> > >>
> > >>Michael,
> > >>
> > >>This changes GDB's behavior. Instead of printing:
> > >>
> > >> no args, no `this'
> > >>it will print
> > >> no args, no this
> > >>
> > >>I don't think GDB's output should be changed in this way.
> > >>(I'm suprized that running the testsuite didn't detect this).
> > >
> > >
> > >Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > >I corrected this with the patch below. I did not add a new test,
> > >because I cannot find a way to invoke this error message. ;-/
> >
> > Michael, my memory of the Apple patch is that it changed this
> > everywhere, the above was just one example :-( (btw `this' not 'this').
>
> By the way, GCC recently reached the consensus that '' and "" were
> appropriate quote marks, and that `' should go away.

Very sensable, IMHO.

> [Although I think they also decided that `' should be left in the
> source and transliterated by the output routines; that way we can
> generate proper quotes in locales which have them. Or maybe that the
> real Unicode quotes should be used in source and transliterated to ''.]