Re: Garbage collection with -finalize?

[Travis Griggs]

On Dec 2, 2005, at 5:12, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> On 12/2/05, Ingolf Jandt <i.jandt@web.de> wrote:
> > >   - If GNUstep provides this functionality soon or even today,
> > >     it should be a snap to attract some Cocoa developers starving  
> > > for
> > > GC already.
> > Es soll nicht schwierig sein, GNUstep mit GC-Unterstützung zu  
> > kompilieren.
> > Vorgesehen ist diese Möglichkeit "schon immer".
> > http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/
> > ProgrammingManual/manual_3.html
>
> For the non-German speaking readers, the above reads:
>
>   It shouldn't be too difficult to compile GNUstep with GC-support.
>   The possibility [to do so] has "always been there".
>
> Yes, it has, but has anyone actually USED it?

I tried once upon a time. I couldn't get it to compile right.  
Admittedly, I'm by no means a regular GNUstep builder. I dabble with  
it and objective-c on Linux. So it may be possible, but it was not  
readily so.

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
10 2 letter words: "If it is to be, it is up to me"



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