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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:41:00 -0000
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
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To: Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Trivialize objc-lang.c FETCH_ARGUMENT
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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?