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- From: lydic@ka8lvz.uucp (lydic)
- Subject: Re: GNU runtime
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.123103.3769@ka8lvz.uucp>
- Keywords: Objective-C
- Organization: organization
- References: <1992Aug5.061418.3152@proponent.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:31:03 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Aug5.061418.3152@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
- >One of my associates has the following questions about GCC 2.2.2 and runtime
- >support.
- >
- >
- >We're quite sure that GNU's recent compilers support Objective-C sources.
- >What about runtime support? Our current code links with a whole bunch of
- >support stuff. This is the underlying C code which makes classes, objects,
- >allocation, freeing, and dispatching all happen.
-
- The GNU compiler was modified by NeXT to support Objective C for their
- platform running NeXTStep
-
- >I suspect we'll need the functionality described in these header files from
- >/usr/include/objc:
- >
- >* objc.h (C functions like object_getClassName which implement standard Object
- >methods)
- >* objc-runtime.h (support for sending messages, allocation, etc)
- >* objc-class.h (support for various class operations)
- >* hashtable.h (hashing is used as part of runtime, although it might not be in
- >a reimplementation)
- >* objc-load.h (only to do dynamic loading?)
- >
- >Is it true that GNU's shipping a compiler which is useless because there's no
- >runtime support for the calls it emits? Has GNU overextended themselves, and
- >if so when will they catch up and how can we help them do so?
-
- Since the work was done by NeXT, and the code was released by them back
- into the GNU community, I'm not sure of your question. GNU software has
- typically been USER SUPPORTED. I think you're confusing it with some
- company that provides support (at a co$t of course). You are free to
- work with FSF and help create anything you feel there is a need for.
-
- -.. .
-
- John W. Lydic Jr lydic@ka8lvz.cmhnet.org
-
- "We live beyond our means, on other peoples dreams, and that's succeeding"
- Janis Ian 'Between the lines'
- ... -.-
-