Apple and gcc 2?

Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
Fri Sep 19 21:01:00 GMT 2003


Michael,

On Sep 19, 2003, at 1:54 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

> jim> For obscure reasons some people who build Kernel Extensions still 
> use
> jim> gcc 2.95, so it will still be provided with the next release of 
> the
> jim> Developer tools.  But we don't advise using it for anything else.
>
> Okay.  Does gdb work with Kernel Extensions?
>

Yes.

> (Obviously where I'm going with this is: figuring out when gdb
> can drop support for gcc 2).

I can't really speak to this.  I don't really know if/when we are going 
to drop support for compiling kext's with 2.95.

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
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