On 2014-03-12 20:02, Iain Buclaw wrote:
gobjc supports both, there's two ABI's for the NeXT - which I take to
mean the difference between the difference between 32bit and 64bit.
You previously listed three ABI's. It's the modern runtime for 64bit and
the traditional for 32bit with with properties that are interesting. I
don't know how much difference these properties do.
It seems that (now I read up on it) the GNU runtime came about from
decades back when NeXT was not open sourced by Apple. From what I can
gather, a move towards the modern ABI is the direction, but not
considered production ready.
From my POV, I wouldn't want to support the ABI of a language that GCC
itself doesn't support. So code compiled by GNU ObjC should be
compatible with extern(ObjC) code generated by GDC - even if it isn't
compatible with Clang ObjC. But then, I'd be surprised if it wasn't
compatible.
I'm not sure I understand. Do you want to support the NeXT or GNU runtime?
Clang is at least compatible with the Apple GCC. I don't know about FSF GCC.
That's hard to say at an initial glance. There's a handy hook system
into each ABI to allow you to switch between versions easily. The
common differences I do however see are:
NeXT:
NSConstantString
objc_getClass
objc_getMetaClass
objc_msgSend
objc_msgSendSuper
GNU:
NXConstantString
objc_get_class
objc_get_meta_class
objc_msg_lookup
objc_msg_lookup_super
Some which greps for s(n)printf also show:
NeXT:
".objc_class_name_%s"
".objc_category_name_%s_%s"
GNU:
"__objc_class_name_%s"
"__objc_category_name_%s_%s"
Most others look the same? Maybe you'll be able to find out more with
this information.
One basically need to look at each single feature and see what differs.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
