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Re: The tree.c patch breaks "make compare."
- To: Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu at cup dot hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: The tree.c patch breaks "make compare."
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:34:32 -0700
- cc: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>, hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu), egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199902231633.IAA32127@hpcll563.cup.hp.com>you write:
> The compiler doesn't generate references to the methods themselves because
> in ObjC the method binding is dynamic. Instead the compiler calls a
> function with a method descriptor and the runtime returns the appropriate
> function. The runtime is able to collect information about all the methods
> defined in all the object files during the initialization process of the
> program.
OK. Thanks for the clarification.
jeff