From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6109 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2002 18:59:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6102 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 18:59:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cdt.org) (206.112.85.61) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 18:59:15 -0000 Received: from www.dberlin.org (pool-138-88-148-121.esr.east.verizon.net [138.88.148.121]) by mail.cdt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A100049005A; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:36:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.dberlin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C121876550; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Berlin To: Michael Snyder Cc: Adam Fedor , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support. In-Reply-To: <3D88BCD1.5379F383@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00414.txt.bz2 On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, 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 > > > > > Oh lord. I suppose I am the only one here who is > even noddingly familiar with Objective C? I've coded some stuff in it in the past year. Basically GUI interfaces to command line VPN clients on MacOSX. > > 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... > > I'll need the ability to run the tests. Does GCC already > have enough objc to compile them? It should. It should have had it for many moons now (3.0 or 3.1, at the latest). >Will I need any special libraries? Shouldn't. >