Re: Fwd: Arguments for Obj-C++ in GCC 4.0

[Frederic Stark]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> and has been taken of the release milestone 4.0.0 by the release manager 
> of GCC (see: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408#c9, in 
> order to get the number of open bugs down and this way GCC ready for a 
> release 

Well, according to <http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/criteria.html>, 
Objective-C is /not/ part of the release criteria.

If I look at <http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/criteria.html>, I find that 
Objective-C was /not/ in the release criteria either, nor in 3.3 or 3.1

(And it looks like java was in release criteria for 3.4, but got dropped 
for 4.0. THAT would drive me crazy).

I don't want to start a flamewar or something, but the action of the 
release manager seems correct to me.


OTOH, If I read the bug correctly, it seems that casting classes don't 
work. If this is really the bug, then most Objective-C code out there 
will not compile.

Now, if we could convince the steering commitee that releasing an 
Objective-C compiler that don't work because nobody reviewed a 10 line 
patch is somewhat ridiculous, we may get someone from the gcc team to 
review the patch 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg00925.html>. And based on 
previous releases, 4.0.1 will be 2 or 3 months later than 4.0.0...

Cheers,

--fred