David Chisnall schrieb: > On 16 Jul 2009, at 18:34, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >>> Sorry, I just haven't had a chance to look at installing a >>> new/different compiler and working with that yet, though it really IS >>> something I'd like to be playing with. >>> >>> However, it doesn't really have any bearing on this issue because we >>> have to develop code for the existing compiler and will need to do so >>> as long as we continue to support it (gcc). >>> >> Yes, I remember a caveat: that was it, no gcc support. As a GNU >> project I'd be quite waey to drop gcc support. > > As a GNU project, I'd hope that the GNU compiler collection would put > some effort into supporting us! Someone at Apple sent them patches for > supporting declared properties over a year ago, and yet GCC still does > not support any of the extensions added in OS X 10.5, which was released > two years ago. > > Snow Leopard is going to make heavy use of blocks and declared > properties in the API, and if we want to remain compatible, we are going > to need a compiler that supports these. It would be really great if GCC > would, but I have yet to see any evidence that anyone is still actively > working on Objective-C support in GCC. In the last two years, Clang has > gone from having no Objective-C support to supporting most of > Objective-C 2 on the GNU runtime, while GCC has not gained a single new > Objective-C feature.
David, your mail got me thinking, I wont switch to Clang and I don't hope GNUstep as a project will. So the only option forward is to start working on better Objective-C support in gcc. I surely wont have time for this beside my maintainer task on GNUstep, but this seems currently the more important task. I will have a look at the code in gcc that supports Objective-C and if I am able to make any sense of it, I might switch over to work on that. Cheers Fred _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev