Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!schwartz From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Objective Gnu? Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 89 19:48:10 GMT References: <45768@bbn.COM> <124947@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Pennsylvania State University, computer science Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: raburns%ecotopia@Sun.COM's message of 19 Sep 89 17:03:16 GMT In article <124947@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Randy Burns writes: | I had heard something to the effect that NeXT was going to make their | Objective C compiler GNUware. Now this sounds really nice, but there | still is a problem: the NeXT objective C compiler will still only run | on NeXT machines (which have a highly proprietary design). It seems to me | that this meets the letter of the law without really enhancing the | availability of standard GNUware particularly. What is it about the NeXT that makes the compiler useless elsewhere? Mach style object files? Calling conventions? What? (In a previous release, 0.8, Sun3 4.0 static binaries would execute without change on a NeXT.) Second, how does this violate the Copyleft agreement? I mean, if they mutate GCC into a new compiler, which they then give away, how can you complain??? -- Scott Schwartz