Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 release process created

Jonas Maebe
2009-09-21T13:55:00Z

On 21 Sep 2009, at 15:46, Jack Howarth wrote:

> I'll wait and see what response I get from my post on llvm-dev first
> (as all the heavy lifting is on llvm/clang at Apple now). Actually, I
> just found out on llvm-dev last Friday that libgcc in Snow Leopard is
> actually subsumed into libSystem now (and the FSF libgcc is never
> actually used). Never heard that anywhere else before.

Yes, but that reply was by the linker guy at Apple. I don't know
whether the gdb guys (Jim Ingham, Christopher Friesen and Jason
Molenda are the ones I know of) are also on the llvm list. At least I
can't find any posts of either of them in my llvm-dev archive.

> Makes life
> interesting when a compiler is creating exception handling for a
> completely
> different unwinder than the one actually used at runtime.

There are a lot of "interesting" things when you develop a compiler/
tool chain for Mac OS X, and more get added with every new major
release. I know all about that...

Jonas