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Re: Questions about gdb/mi support on the Mac

> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:43:15 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> 
> > If you are using GDB an Mac OS X, it is Apple's highly customized
> > version to work with Xcode.  You'd really have to ask them about it -
> > it's got common ancestry with other versions of GDB, but has changed
> > quite a lot to work better with their IDE.
> 
> That's disappointing. Does that mean that a front end written to work on
> all other platforms with fsf gdb wouldn't work on Mac OS X?

I think it _will_ work on a Mac, if stock GDB from the FSF sources is
used.  The problem is that the GDB installed by default on a Mac
isn't a stock one, but has extensive changes.
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