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Re: Compiling GNUstep on darwin (again)
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Paul Bayley |
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Re: Compiling GNUstep on darwin (again) |
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Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:04:35 -0700 (PDT) |
On Wednesday, Jul 24, 2002, at 12:36PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de> wrote:
>>The NeXT (Apple) runtime is written with asemmbly while GNU's is
>>written in pure C code (so it is more portable).
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>Are you really shure about this? A while ago I checked out Apple's objc4
>projekt from anoncvs.opensource.apple.com and build that. I don't remember any
>assembler files there (but I also
>didn't inspect every line of code). currently I can't check (since I am at
>work but I will as soon as I get home).
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shure?
The 'runtime' is written in C with optimizations in assembly. IIRC the manner
in which the 'runtime' branches to a function can't be generalized in C.