[PATCH] Objective-C language support.

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Wed Sep 18 11:59:00 GMT 2002



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.

> 



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