Objective-C additions to gcc-3.3/changes.html

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nicola Pero wrote:
> I went through the recent ChangeLog, and compiled a list of Objective-C
> user-visible changes in GCC 3.3.
>
> Ok to apply ?

Yes, this looks basically fine (and is very welcome).

I hope you don't mind some minor changes?

> Index: changes.html
> ===================================================================
> +    <li>Generate an error if Objective-C objects are passed by value in function and
> +         method calls</li>

Please wrap long lines; usually we try to avoid lines with more than 75
(or so) columns.

> +    <li>When -Wselector is used, check the whole list of selectors at the
> +         end of compilation, and emit a warning if a @selector() is not
> +         known</li>
> +    <li>Define __NEXT_RUNTIME__ when compiling for the NeXT runtime</li>
> +    <li>No longer need to include objc/objc-class.h to compile self calls
> +         in class methods (NeXT runtime only)</li>

Snippets of code, options, and filenames (such as -Wselector, @selector(),
__NEXT_RUNTIME__, objc/objc-class.h) should be marked-up as code, as in
<code>-Wselector</code>.

> +    <li>Type checking has been fixed and improved in many situations
> +         involving protocols</li>

This (and most other) sentence(s) lack a trailing punto[1].

Thanks for working on this piece of documentation!
Gerald

[1] I hope that's the correct vocabulary? ;-)
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/