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Re: Next release of GDB


Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar <robbe@prosun.first.gmd.de> writes:

Presumably, the Objective C support would be in the MacOS X Support
bits.  MacOS X being based on NextStep, which is in turn heavily
Objective C based...

Jim

> Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Here are some additional things that I would like to see, but that
> > ought not to hold up the release if they can't be gotten in:
> >
> > * first version of libgdb, w/Guile scripting
> > * GNU/Linux thread_db library support
> > * asynchronous execution for GNU/Linux
> > * fork following for GNU/Linux
> > * HP WDB 1.1 bits

>>>>>>>>>>>> > * Apple MacOS X support bits

> > * Current VxWorks (Tornado) support bits
> > * Current LynxOS support bits
> > * m68k BDM patches
> > * Ada language support
> > 
> > There are probably many other important things that I'm forgetting,
> > please speak up and remind me about them!
> [...]
> 
> .. what about Objective C support? That should not be to hard.
> (For gdb-4.16 and gdb-4.17, there was a patch,
> afaik by Michael Snyder <msnyder@NeXT.com>;
> still present at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnustep/contrib
> This patch does not work for gdb-4.18, but only because the code
> changed too much for the "patch" program to apply, I think.) 
> 
> Have I missed some point here -- has the Objective C patch
> been rejected because of pricipal reasons not supporting Objective C
> in gdb? As I scanned the archives, I found only 
> Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1998/msg00115.html
> raising the same issue, but without getting any feedback.
>  
>  Or has just nobody been around so far interested in doing the
> (little) work?
> 
> 
> regards, 
>  clemens

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Jim Ingham                                              jingham@cygnus.com
Cygnus Solutions Inc.

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