diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 18031a898..d9039fa1d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-05-26  Mirko Viviani  <mirko.viviani@rccr.cremona.it>
+
+	* Source/NSDebug.m (_NSPrintForDebugger): new function to support print
+	object (po) cmd of gdb.
+
 2001-05-25  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Use -lobjc with NeXT_RUNTIME.
diff --git a/Source/NSDebug.m b/Source/NSDebug.m
index b6ff1b4bd..29a1f0747 100644
--- a/Source/NSDebug.m
+++ b/Source/NSDebug.m
@@ -760,3 +760,11 @@ void *NSReturnAddress(int offset)
 
    return NULL;
 }
+
+const char *_NSPrintForDebugger(id object)
+{
+  if (object && [object respondsToSelector: @selector(description)])
+    return [[object description] cString];
+
+  return NULL;
+}