Re: problems debugging with clang 3.2, gdb 7.6, libobjc2 SVN, and Ubuntu 13.10

[Matt Rice]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4. 10. 2013., at 21:50, Eric Wasylishen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2. Printing ivars is broken. gdb seems to print  self->isa when you do 
>> "print someivar" or "print self->someivar". lldb-3.2 prints an error asking 
>> you to report a bug.
>>
>> I configured gnustep-make with --enable-debug-by-default 
>> --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi,  gnustep-base with --disable-mixedabi.
>>
>> I talked to Alex S. on Étoilé IRC and he observed the same two problems on a 
>> similar setup as me; Quentin also mentioned the ivar printing problem to me.
>>
>
> I've also had similar problem with printing Objective-C variables on Ubuntu 
> 12.04, and whatever-gdb-ships-with-12-04. I think my install has a post-3.2 
> clang SVN, possibly post-3.3. I would suspect it's an incompatibility between 
> libobjc2 and gdb/lldb, though it would be strange if David didn't see it.

don't recall seeing any changes for gdb to support non-fragile ivars,
that'd be my guess