Re: ANN: GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.4

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.4
> ===============================
>
> This is the fifth official release of the GNUstep Objective-C  
> runtime (a.k.a.
> libobjc2).  This runtime was designed to support the features of  
> Objective-C 2
> for use with GNUstep and other Objective-C programs.  Highlights of  
> this
> release include:

And, unfortunately, it seems to contain a major bug. The attached  
program generates the incorrect output

new object is: <MyObject: 0x104b80>

with version 1.4 of the GNUstep Objective-C (compiled with gcc 4.5 on  
OS X, and gcc 4.4 on Ubuntu 10.04). The correct output is

new object is: [MyObject:0x104b80]

and is produced with all other Objective-C runtimes, including version  
1.3 of the GNUstep runtime.

Wolfgang

PS: Don't tell me that the release calls in the sample program are  
redundant. I know you think they are, but I prefer writing code which  
is correct independent of its context.

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