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- From: frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Problems using gcc 2.3.3
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.170501.242@glocke.hotb.sub.org>
- Sender: frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org
- References: <PFKEB.92Dec30221114@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:05:01 GMT
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- In article <PFKEB.92Dec30221114@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul F. Kunz) writes:
- > So here we are...
- >
- > - gcc 2.3.3 doesn't support NeXT's extensions to Objective-C which
- > were introduced with NeXTSTEP3.0 So you can't use gcc for any
- > compilation requiring the appkit; cuz it will hit things like
- > ``@class'' almost immediately.
- >
- > - NeXT's cc++ doesn't support GNU's extension to the C++ language which
- > were introduced with gcc 2.x. So you can't use cc++ for any
- > compilation requiring libg++; cuz it will hit things like
- > ``#include-next stdlib.h'' almost immediately.
- >
- > So if I understand things right (please correct me if I'm wrong), we
- > are really in bad shape. We can't use both the latest release of
- > gcc/libg++ and NeXTSTEP 3.0 in the same application.
- >
- > Anybody else find this distrubing?
- YES,
- and the question raises again
- WHY the hell can we not force NeXT to release it's changes to gcc.
- They must release the source if they distribute the binaries.
-
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