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Editorial 9 November 2001
The mailing-lists
Just for all you people wondering what GNUstep and Mac OS X could have
for you in the future. Stan Shebs from Apple Computer Inc. told us
that gcc 3.x will be the next compiler on the Mac OS X platform, they
are currently running gcc 2.95.x. This means that the code written for
the current GNUstep Objective-C runtime from gcc 3.x will be closer to
Mac OS X then ever.
Seems like we are getting closer to them and they to us. Good
thing(tm) open specifications; like OpenStep.
Another large treat was about file optimizations. Meaning that
sometimes you don't want a specific file compiled with the default
optimization (-O2). Nicola Pero wrote an extension on the GNUstep
make-system, so that it is supported now. To quote him on the made
changes:
I implemented this for gnustep-make, it's already on CVS.
To compile asm in the Objective-C file file.m you can now add to the
GNUmakefil
e
file.m_FILE_FILTER_OUT_FLAGS = -O% -fomit-frame-pointer
that will automatically instruct gnustep-make to filter-out -O% and
-fomit-fram
e-pointer
from the flags when file.m is compiled. Flags for other files won't be
touched
.
No need to touch/redefine any internal compilation rule.
(the same for C, C++, java files - for example
file.c_FILE_FILTER_OUT_FLAGS = -O% -fomit-frame-pointer
works the same)
you can also add flags (and they are added after the other ones), so I guess
file.m_FILE_FLAGS = -O0 -fno-omit-frame-pointer
should have the same result because as you say the last flags should
take the
precedence.
Code changes
See the above GNUstep make changes.
Richard Frith-Macdonald added a patch by Ludovic Marcotte to make
defaults data only read/write to the user. He also added an initial
attempt to make defaults thread-safe. A lot of testing is now needed.
Fred Kiefer added a couple of new functions to NSSpellChecker, like
guessesForWord and checkSpelling.
Laurent Julliard added NSDrawFramePhoto to the NSImageCell.
Adam Fedor created a simple printing/pagination implementation. He
also made sure that Xft library was included in the backend (xgps)
when we have Xft installed. This is for the anti-aliased font support.
Applications
Still going on is the porting effort of GWorkspace.app to Mac OS X. It
is now in a workable state, to see prove of this, here is a
screenshot.
Richard Frith-Macdonald has improved GORM, so time for a new CVS
checkout.
Documentation
Update and fixes on the Defaults documentation page, with thanks to
Martin Brecher and Chris Vetter.
Dennis Leeuw
References
1. http://www.gnustep.org/
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