Re: Cocoa To GnuStep port questions

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 03:22 PM, Saibot wrote:

> > Am Montag den, 11. März 2002, um 13:38, schrieb Saibot:
> >
> > > - Did any of you already try to use a gcc modified with the
> > > apple patches to compile ObjC++ code that can run on
> > > windows/linux.
> >
> > The Apple patched gcc's (2.95.2 an 3.1 experimental) on Darwin /
> > OS X are the only compilers supporting ObjC++, AFAIK. You'd have
> > to get rid of your C++ interface, e.g. by wrapping C++ into
> > plain C, or to port NeXT runtime (the "objc4" module in Darwin)
> > to Windows.
>
> Making a C bridge will be extremely painful as we make very extensive 
> use of
> multiple inheritance and polymorphism, we already considered that but 
> that's
> a definite no...
>
> The solution wuold be to use a windows/linux gcc containing the
> modifications apple made. Like I said, I don't care if these changes 
> are not
> accepted in the main gcc as long as it generates code that works for
> everyone.

Even so, lobbying the gcc mailing lists to have the ObjC++ changes 
merged into
the main line is probably a good idea.  I believe that is the intention 
anyway,
but the more people who say they want it, the higher the priority is 
likely
to become (as long as you lobby politely of course).