On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Ted Kremenek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems to work fine on 10.5 and 10.6 (except for subscripting). As > far as I can tell, literals are just converted into ObjC method calls > that exist on 10.5 – I guess what I'm asking is if you expect literals > to be compiled into something else soonish (say, within the next > year). If you plan to support 10.7 and the 10.7 ObjC runtime doesn't > support "compiled literals" already, that's probably not the case? > > > We try not to break existing code like that once we roll out a language > feature. We'd only change how this feature is compiled if the minimum > deployment target was set to something where we could break backward > compatibility because we could change the runtime. That change would be > transparent to developers. > > (What I really want to know if we can use this in chromium, which is > still compiled for 10.5 :-) ) > > > If you find that it works for you, that is something you can rely on. My > main point is that we haven't tested it on 10.5, and if there are bugs > because of subtle runtime differences, etc., we're not likely to invest time > in fixing them.
Ok, thanks for the response. We'll give it a try and see how it works for us. Nico _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
