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Chris Lattner clattner@apple.com
Fri Apr 25 08:42:00 GMT 2008


On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:29 PM, tromey@redhat.com wrote:

>>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com> writes:
>
> Chris> Thanks Tom.  FWIW, #import should be treated as an extension  
> in C/C++,
> Chris> but treated as part of the 'standard' in ObjC mode.  The  
> closest thing
> Chris> that ObjC has to a spec are the various books published on  
> it, and all
> Chris> teach '#import'.
>
> Thanks.  I will look at implementing this behavior, then.
>
> Also, I noticed that the cpp documentation still claims that #import
> is deprecated; at least, it is only documented in a section titled
> "Obsolete once-only headers".  SNAFU I guess.  I will try to fix this
> too.

It seems likely that when that was written, the author just didn't  
think about (or know about) ObjC. Thanks a lot for working on this!

-Chris



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