From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11990 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2007 10:19:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 11935 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2007 10:19:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao101.cox.net) (68.230.240.7) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:19:40 +0000 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070825101939.MGVE21807.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:19:39 -0400 Received: from black ([70.181.32.198]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id gAKe1X00D4GV2Jm0000000; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:19:38 -0400 Received: from bob by black with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IOsjy-00039h-7R; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:19:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Gordon.Prieur@Sun.COM, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac Message-ID: <20070825101938.GD6213@cox.net> References: <46CF1A71.1020002@sun.com> <20070824180208.GA18829@caradoc.them.org> <20070824184315.GB6213@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:56:18PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:43:15 -0400 > > From: Bob Rossi > > > > > If you are using GDB an Mac OS X, it is Apple's highly customized > > > version to work with Xcode. You'd really have to ask them about it - > > > it's got common ancestry with other versions of GDB, but has changed > > > quite a lot to work better with their IDE. > > > > That's disappointing. Does that mean that a front end written to work on > > all other platforms with fsf gdb wouldn't work on Mac OS X? > > I think it _will_ work on a Mac, if stock GDB from the FSF sources is > used. Well, sure. > The problem is that the GDB installed by default on a Mac > isn't a stock one, but has extensive changes. Yeah, that's very unfortunate. It's to bad apple made such a silly decision. Think about all the front ends to gdb that won't work on Mac OS X out of the box. I have users that use cgdb on Mac OS X. It works because I still use the annotate 2 interface. I'm currently working on switching over to gdb/mi, it's to bad I'll have to tell my mac users it won't work. I think the responsible thing that apple should have done would have been to make an --interp=mi-apple, which would allow there front end to work with gdb. Bob Rossi