Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple! bbn!bbn.com!bpalmer From: bpal...@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Objective Gnu? Keywords: gnu,gcc,next Message-ID: <45768@bbn.COM> Date: 19 Sep 89 15:36:16 GMT Sender: n...@bbn.COM Lines: 16 In "The NeXT Book" by Bruce Webster, he says: (page 134) Objective C is based on the Gnu C compiler developed by Richard Stallman. Release 0.9 has merged the Objective C syntax with the the Gnu C compiler to speed up compilation and to produce faster, more efficient code. Are they using FSF software in their product? Or is Webster just badly explaining the situation ... and Objective C is just preprocessing and passing C to gcc. Otherwise Gang, I see a Copyleft violation right? Brian
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!scs From: s...@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Status of GNU Objective C? Message-ID: <3835@itivax.iti.org> Date: 20 Sep 89 13:13:54 GMT Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 9 There's been talk in gnu.misc about a front-end for Objective-C being put into gcc (gobjective-c? objective-g? geez...). Can anyone verify this to be true, and if so give status and tentative scheduling on it? Steve -- Steve Simmons s...@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu! tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!NEXT.COM!Matthew_Self From: Matthew_S...@NEXT.COM Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Objective-C front end for GCC from NeXT Message-ID: <8909210104.AA14825@batcomputer.NeXT.COM> Date: 21 Sep 89 01:01:50 GMT Sender: dae...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 23 In response to Steve Simmons' inquiry about an Objective-C front-end for GCC, NeXT will be making our modifications to GCC for Objective-C available very soon. Once GCC-1.36 is released (any day now), I will create a patch kit which will be announced on this mailing list. (The modifications are very small.) Whether and when this Objective-C support will be merged into the GCC release is, of course, up to Richard Stallman. The main issue which must be resolved before this is likely to occur is how to provide a run-time system for Objective-C. (The NeXT run-time system is not compatible with StepStone's run-time system.) NeXT hopes to distribute its Objective-C run-time system through the FSF, but some small modifications must be made first. The system currently relies on special features of the Mach-O object file format used on the NeXT computer. The run-time system will be distributed without restrictions on its use, so Objective-C programs can be freely linked with our run-time system. -- Matthew Self