Re: gdb objc regressions

[David Ayers]

Hello Matt

Matt Rice schrieb:

> there is some issues with debugging objc
[snip]
> 
> it appears these are covered by failures in the testsuite but i
> anticipate not a lot of gdb developers have the objc compiler
> installed,
> 
> I don't mind looking into this but it may take me a while to get up to speed,
> so any pointers in where to start looking would be appreciated

I noticed this also.  It seem to be an issue with GDB not being able to
parse GCC's debug info and it seems like regression in GCC rather than GDB.

See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462882

A current workaround would be to:

set language objective-c

explicitly, as suggested by Daniel.

I haven't had the resources to investigate the exact commit that caused
the regression yet.

Cheers,
David