Apple's Objective-C language patch

Adam Fedor fedor@doc.com
Mon Sep 9 20:30:00 GMT 2002


Jason Molenda wrote:
> 
> What is the history behind objc-exp.y?  Is this from the old
> gnustep-gdb patch that'd been floating around since the mid-90's
> (the one that Michael Snyder wrote while at NeXT)?  The Apple
> sources have the ObjC support rolled in c-exp.y; it doesn't seem
> unreasonable given the overlap between the two expression syntaxes.
> 

I got everything, including objc-exp.y from the 'recent' Apple patch. I 
haven't looked at the latest Apple sources - I didn't know if I should 
do that since Andrew Cagney told me to work from the patch, but perhaps 
I misunderstood.

Thanks for the other comments. I'll have to look at name demangling more 
closely to see what's happening.

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