Give hint for GDB in Emacs on Mac OSX.

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
index 81a536f066bcbb9751703b4fc261c9cdbe7cc89f..34c13b6948fc50d4fa5eb67907477f392b7fc0fc 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@
 ;;   2) Use MinGW GDB instead.
 ;;   3) Use cygwin-mount.el
 
+;;; Mac OSX:
+
+;; GDB in Emacs on Mac OSX works best with FSF GDB as Apple have made
+;; some changes to the version that they include as part of Mac OSX.
+;; This requires GDB version 7.0 or later (estimated release date June 2009)
+;; as earlier versions don not compile on Mac OSX.
+
 ;;; Known Bugs:
 
 ;; 1) Cannot handle multiple debug sessions.