Re: [RFC] Trivialize objc-lang.c FETCH_ARGUMENT

Adam Fedor
2003-04-23T03:00:41Z

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 07:41 PM, Michael Snyder wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
>>
>> Well, I thought I'd at least try to see if this patch would be ok.
>> Here
>> I replace the arcitecture dependant FETCH_ARGUMENT with a trivial
>> implementation that does nothing. This would allow objc-lang.o to be
>> linked into gdb and I commit most or all of the remaining Objective-C
>> patches. Then I could work on fixing FETCH_ARGUMENT at my leasure...
>
> That seems reasonable. By the way, if there's been an ongoing
> discussion,
> I haven't followed it. Why is it that you need to do this in an
> architecture-dependent way? GDB should have enough debug info to
> do this cleanly, shouldn't it?
>
It's possible, although these particular functions are in the Apple
runtime and highly optimized, possibly in assembly. I'm not sure if the
information is available. I'll have to look at it more, but I couldn't
even test the changes since it only works on MacOSX/Darwin and GNU gdb
doesn't compile on Darwin.