Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support.

Adam Fedor
2002-09-18T20:31:41Z

Michael Snyder wrote:
> Adam Fedor wrote:
>
>>This patch adds Objective-C language support to gdb based upon a patch
>>provided by Apple Computer Inc from their version of gdb. Note that the
>>patch only contains changes to existing files. New files (objc-lang.h,
>>objc-lang.c, objc-exp.y) and a gdb.objc testsuite directory are located at
>>
>>ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/contrib/gdb-objc-patch.tar.gz
>>
>
> There's a good chance that I wrote some of this code
> anyway, so I'll try to have a look at it. You know,
> of course, that we can't just drop something this huge
> into the source tree without some review...
>

Well I though it would just be reject outright, so I guess I'm doing
relatively good :-)

> I'll need the ability to run the tests. Does GCC already
> have enough objc to compile them? Will I need any special
> libraries?

It's been tested with gcc 2.95 and 3.X. It should work with any gcc out
of the box. Only libobjc which comes with gcc.

> Any chance of getting the original authors' names for the
> changelog, instead of / in addition to yours?

I looked at the ChangeLog that came with the patch, but most changes
didn't have anything to do with the patches I submitted, or it was hard
for me to match an entry with an actual change in the code. I could try
to look at CVS logs, but that could be tedious and Jason Molenda has
said that most of those are null.

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