Re: Objective-C gdb (was: Re: Problem with AppKit/Fonts?)

[Adam Fedor]

On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 07:58 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > I use gdb on ix86 machines ... and I have no problem with the 'next' 
> > command.
> > Perhaps what's needed is a short test program to run the debugger on, 
> > and
> > an explanation of how to reproduce the problem with 'next'
>
> I havn't been able to reproduce this with "simple" -base tests, but 
> with ProjectCenter.
>
> I "break" at main, "next" all the way to NSApplicationMain, step into  
> it and when trying to 'next' over the creation of the autorelease 
> pool, gdb continues (i.e. dosen't stop when the creation returns).  
> Note that in main there is already a release pool created and 
> destroyed before calling NSApplicationMain.

I get it now. It only seems to happen when using next within a method 
that is in a shared library. In fact, I've been able to replicate this 
on even C programs (see attached). Someone should tell me I'm wrong - I 
can't believe no one else has noticed this...

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