Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Andrew Pinski]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:34:51AM -0500, Adrian Robert wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> It may be that the Objective-C doesn't have the resources to maintain
>>> the Objective-C front end.  In that case, you are probaby out of 
>>> luck;
>>> it's unlikely that people outside your community will maintain the
>>> Objective-C front end gratis just to make the world a better place.
>>> So, if you care about GNU Objective-C, you're going to want to
>>> organize a community around that language that includes some GCC
>>> developers.
>>
>> The problem is not the nonexistence of Objective-C GCC developers, but
>> their being outnumbered by the C/C++ ones (who thus determine both 
>> pace
>> of development and release criteria).
>
> You are simply wrong on this point.  If there were more Objective-C
> developers, the problem would not come up.  That's how both the Ada
> and Java frontends manage.

And it really does not matter now, the bug is fixed way before the
branch of the 4.0 and before the release of 4.0.

-- Pinski