Pending issues wrt integrating objc-improvements-branch with mainline

[Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>]

Hi Mark,

As you may have noticed, I have been furiously keeping  
objc-improvements-branch up-to-date wrt your changes in C++ land;  
presently,
I'm merging mainline's sources as of yesterday (i.e., Aug 1), and very  
shortly I expect objc-improvements-branch to be up-to-date
and ready for integration back into the mainline.

At this point, I have two questions regarding how to proceed (along  
with proposed solutions :-)).

(1) How should I discharge my obligation regarding ObjC++  
documentation?  Given that there is next to no _ObjC_ documentation
    in GCC at present :-), I am tempted to simply point GCC users at

         
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ 
index.html

    which discusses both ObjC and ObjC++.  Would this be OK, and if so,  
where should I insert it?

(2) How would you like me to stage the actual integration once it is  
ready to happen?  To minimize the burden placed on other maintainers,
    I propose to break this down as follows:
      (a1)  Merge in (minor) changes to the C front-end;
      (a2)  Merge in changes specific to the objc/ and testsuite/objc*  
directories;
      (b)   Merge in the c-objc-common and cp/cp-objcp-common  
lang-hooks rewrite (this basically just moves stuff around);
      (c1)  Merge in changes to the C++ front-end; aside from a big new  
chunk going into cp/parser.c, these are also minor;
      (c2)  Merge in the objcp/ and testsuite/obj-c++.dg/ directories.

    This assumes that (a1) and (a2) occur quasi-simultaneously,  
followed by (b) and then by (c1)-(c2) (also quasi-simultaneously).
    I can carry out (a2) and (c2) under my ObjC/ObjC++ mullah powers,  
but will need global maintainer approval for the other three.

I look forward to your feedback.

Thanks,

--Zem
--------------------------------------------------------------
Ziemowit Laski                 1 Infinite Loop, MS 301-2K
Mac OS X Compiler Group        Cupertino, CA USA  95014-2083
Apple Computer, Inc.           +1.408.974.6229  Fax .5477