GCC and Clang

[Gregory Casamento]

The way I see it, we have two ways we can go. In each, I have outlined what I believe needs to be done.  It may or may not be complete:

LLVM/Clang:

1) Improve libobjc2 such that it can 

   a) function properly on a wider set of platforms.   This means 

      i) Correct build issues it has in on some environments. 

      ii) Simplifying the build of it on Windows 

           (i.e., don't require Visual Studio :))

GCC

1) Implement syntactic sugar 

   a) This includes @[], @{}, and @autorelease as well as

   b) Various @property directives

   c) Improvements to the GCC libobjc to support the new syntax

      i) Implementation of ARC in the runtime

I believe that both of these are doable and, ultimately, free software is about choice.  The above are our options as I see them.

Just FYI guys, I do know where these changes need to take place in the GCC source code... at least for GCC #1a and 1b.  The big challenge with GCC is ARC. 

Also, I am looking into Clang #1a.ii listed above.  I am going to try to make libobjc2 work properly on Windows.

Yours, GC

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