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- From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
- Subject: Another Obj-C Implementation (long) (was: Re: GNU runtime)
- Message-ID: <9208140630.AA06145@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug13.164711.7859@itnsg1.cineca.it>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:30:28 GMT
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- Another "free" Obj-C implementation is available via anonymous ftp on
- ghost.dsi.unimi.it (yeah, it is in Italy!!), in the file pub/objective-C.tar.Z.
- It does contains a translator, a debugger and a runtime library (I think).
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- We don't need the translator or the debugger, but we could use the library.
- Would somebody like to adapt it to work with GCC?
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- Some of the library probably consists of class definitions, and those
- should not need to be changed. But the message dispatch part of the
- library might need to be changed. There is also the question of how
- to represent the data structures that are used for dispatching at run
- time, in order to make message dispatch fast. It looks like part of
- this is written in assembler, which is a problem; we need a version
- written in C so it can be portable.
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