ObjC++

[Theodore C. Belding]

I don't know if anyone else is interested besides me, but I emailed Scott
Christley about the chances of getting NeXT's ObjC++ integrated into gcc.
Then we could freely mix ObjC and C++ code.  Here's his response.
-Ted

>>From address@hidden Sat Sep  7 12:21:46 1996
>Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 12:30:12 -0400
>X-Sender: address@hidden
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>To: "Theodore C. Belding" <address@hidden>
>From: Scott Christley <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: new gcc-objc snapshot
>
>At 11:57 PM 9/6/96 -0400, Theodore C. Belding wrote:
>>Is there any chance of getting NeXT's Objective-C++ included in gcc?
>>Someone from NeXT said a while ago on the comp.lang.objective-c newsgroup
>>that they had made the code available, but they didn't say where.
>
>They supply the source code with their developer system.  I have talked to a
>couple of developers at NeXT and it may be possible that ObjC++ can be added
>as a separate language front-end in GCC; FSF may or may not be interested in
>maintaining such a beast, but its something to pursue.  It's pretty doubtful
>that the ObjC and C++ frontends currently in GCC would be integrated together.
>
>Scott
>

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Ted Belding                        <mailto:address@hidden>
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>