Re: Clang/LLVM migration roadmap

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 06.02.2022 um 01:14 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com>:
> 
> There are a number of factors that are driving this:
> --
> 1) GCC lacks support for many memory management features that are commonly 
> used today
> 2) GCC's objective-c support is lagging behind and doesn't include support 
> for @[], @{}, @autorelease, etc etc etc
> 3) Lack of bug fixes in GCC's implementation of ObjC
> 4) GCC team does not consider ObjC release critical and will and HAS released 
> with broken support for building ObjC targets.  
> All of these things are UNACCEPTABLE

Again I beg to differ. Of course the first two point are true and need to be 
addressed. But I am not aware of any critical bug in gcc that is currently 
hindering us. There are many missing features and this is really bad for 
GNUstep and ObjC as a whole. As for the position of the gcc team on ObjC, none 
of knows and we only may guess here. The one time where a gcc release knowingly 
broke ObjC was ages ago. Maybe it could happen again, we just don’t know. 
Stating something as a fact that is just a possibility is a rather annoying 
habit of our times. Please don’t do so on the GNUstep mailing list.
As is typing words in all capital letters. It really doesn’t help in polite 
conversations.

Fred