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Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support.
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Adam Fedor <fedor at doc dot com>, <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:59:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Objective-C language support.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Adam Fedor wrote:
> >
> > This patch adds Objective-C language support to gdb based upon a patch
> > provided by Apple Computer Inc from their version of gdb. Note that the
> > patch only contains changes to existing files. New files (objc-lang.h,
> > objc-lang.c, objc-exp.y) and a gdb.objc testsuite directory are located at
> >
> > ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/contrib/gdb-objc-patch.tar.gz
> >
>
>
> Oh lord. I suppose I am the only one here who is
> even noddingly familiar with Objective C?
I've coded some stuff in it in the past year.
Basically GUI interfaces to command line VPN clients on MacOSX.
>
> There's a good chance that I wrote some of this code
> anyway, so I'll try to have a look at it. You know,
> of course, that we can't just drop something this huge
> into the source tree without some review...
>
> I'll need the ability to run the tests. Does GCC already
> have enough objc to compile them?
It should.
It should have had it for many moons now (3.0 or 3.1, at the latest).
>Will I need any special libraries?
Shouldn't.
>