Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac

Bob Rossi
2007-08-24T18:43:29Z

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:02:08PM -0400, 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.

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?

Bob Rossi