From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23263 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2003 21:01:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23247 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2003 21:01:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2003 21:01:28 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8JL1RJ1025603 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:00:59 -0700 Received: from [17.201.22.240] (inghji.apple.com [17.201.22.240]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8JL1HWI019365; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:01:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200309192054.h8JKsfvL020287@duracef.shout.net> References: <200309192054.h8JKsfvL020287@duracef.shout.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v604) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <712014EF-EAE4-11D7-A429-00039379E320@apple.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Jim Ingham Subject: Re: Apple and gcc 2? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:01:00 -0000 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 Michael, On Sep 19, 2003, at 1:54 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > jim> For obscure reasons some people who build Kernel Extensions still > use > jim> gcc 2.95, so it will still be provided with the next release of > the > jim> Developer tools. But we don't advise using it for anything else. > > Okay. Does gdb work with Kernel Extensions? > Yes. > (Obviously where I'm going with this is: figuring out when gdb > can drop support for gcc 2). I can't really speak to this. I don't really know if/when we are going to drop support for compiling kext's with 2.95. Jim -- Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com Developer Tools Apple Computer