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Re: Objective C?
- To: Helge Hess <helge dot hess at mdlink dot de>
- Subject: Re: Objective C?
- From: Corwin Light-Williams <corwin at commandprompt dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 20:05:40 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: shebs at apple dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Is the NeXT runtime also submitted to FSF ? If not, please take care
> that integrating Apple ObjC changes doesn't break the ObjC frontend's
> ability to generate code for the GNU runtime.
I'd be really interested to see that the NeXT runtime got brought
over to open-land, although I suspect that's a pipe dream.
It'd be neat to have one runtime we could all settle and work on.
> No offense intendend - but you are only explaining the Apple POV (which
> is ok). Right now the standard runtime of gcc is the *GNU* runtime, gcc
> is *GNU* software. The primary goal should be to improve the standard
> runtime(/gcc), not the code of some company (would be somewhat different
> if the NeXT libobjc would be assigned to FSF).
I find it a little bit weird that the runtimes are separate. I mean,
I guess the Apple runtime is part of the core operating system, but
it seems weird. Mr. Shebs, sir, what does the climate at apple think
about releasing the runtime? or am i naive to think about that? :)
Corwin
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