Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac

Jim Ingham
2007-08-24T18:30:16Z

As Daniel said, we've pretty freely changed the MI interfaces to make
them work with ProjectBuilder, then "Project Builder" then Xcode.
When we started working on this 6 years ago, the MI interfaces were
pretty rudimentary, so this was necessary. And there wasn't much
interest in taking MI changes for the first couple of years we were
working on it here, so we gradually drifted apart.

There have been several rounds of pulling from our sources to the FSF
version by various kind folks on the net - though these often
introduced other subtler differences. I haven't ever catalogued what
we've changed, however, so I can't off the top of my head tell you
what is different. Most of the changes we made to input syntax are
documented either in our version of the manual, or in the function
headers to the mi implementation functions. The output changes are
less well documented. And in our sources we've tried to mark our
local diffs with "APPLE LOCAL"; but with the MI stuff, where there are
many whole sections of code that we've added, we are less careful
about this.

There was a short-lived attempt to rationalize the MI interfaces. It
seems to have gone quiet, however - I don't think anybody who's
actually working on gdb had sufficient motivation to make it worth the
time it would take to actually do this.

Jim

On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:50:41AM -0700, Gordon Prieur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the known differences between running gdb/mi on a Mac and
>> on Windows/Linux/Solaris? I'm debugging problems in netbeans C/C++
>> support (via gdb) on the Mac and am seeing significant differences
>> between
>> the Mac and other platforms.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
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