[alt.next] GNU compiler/debugger/editor bundled with NeXT

mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure) (10/14/88)

In article <5630@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I didn't see or hear *anything* about support
>in their announcement.).

They said they were going to have e-mail support and a bulletin
board...  John Ison said he wanted to be more of an advocate for
developers than an evangelist for NeXT.  He's apparently in
charge of developer support.  You can reach him at 415-424-0200.

Matthew McClure			{pacbell,lll-crg,apple,hplabs}!well!mmc
International Technology Development Corporation
1990 Lombard Street, #250, San Francisco, CA 94123	   415-929-0924

tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) (10/15/88)

I wonder what it will be like using Objective C - into - GCC and
then trying to use GDB on that!  From what I've heard, the C produced
by Stepstone is a bit hard to follow.
Glenn

ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) (10/17/88)

In article <7379@well.UUCP> tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
>I wonder what it will be like using Objective C - into - GCC and
>then trying to use GDB on that!  From what I've heard, the C produced
>by Stepstone is a bit hard to follow.

It is, indeed. But GDB has been modified to know a bit about Objective C;
thus it knows method calls by their actual names and not by the names ObjC
assigns them (ie, "drawSelf::" versus "_23_View"), and it also knows about
instance variables and lets you access them without having to deal with any
ObjC-generated C structures/unions. You also step through the ObjC code,
not the generated C code.

Ali Ozer, aozer@NeXT.com