Re: Problem with GNUstep and Objective-C++

[David Ayers]

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.
>