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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: GNU compiler/debugger/editor bundled with NeXT
Message-ID: <4515@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:34:57 GMT
References: <5630@hoptoad.uucp> <7379@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University
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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