Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 06:56 +0000 schrieb David Ayers: > Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 13:07 +0100 schrieb David Chisnall: > > On 4 May 2009, at 21:28, Mike Simmons wrote: > > > > >> Is your compiler built with Objective-C++ support? This is not the > > >> default for building GCC, and many distributions are reluctant to > > >> enable it because it is not really maintained by anyone at the > > >> moment. Can you compile a simple ObjC++ file? > > > > > > Is gcc Objective-C++ support distinct from ordinary Objective-C > > > support? I can compile and run a simple Objective-C program but not > > > an Objective-C++ program. > > > > Yes, in GCC objc and objc++ are entirely distinct front-ends. This, > > unfortunately, means that improvements in one do not always get shared > > with the other, and that while objc is almost-unmaintained, objc++ is > > completely unmaintained. > > Well, if you look at how the front-ends are implemented, objc++ actually > links in many of the object files of the objc front end, so most pure > objc features/fixes do get shared.
Actually, that's not quite correct... the objc++ front end actually re-compiles the objc front end file. > Yet objc++ is indeed in need of a maintainer. > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
