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From: ssmith@joplin.mpr.ca (Shaun Smith)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Objective-C/GCC
Keywords: Objective-C, GCC, Object-Oriented, Stepstone Technology
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Date: 21 Sep 89 15:53:54 GMT
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Reply-To: ssmith@joplin.UUCP (Shaun Smith)
Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Could someone clarify for me the relationship between Stepstone Technology, 
developer of Objective-C, NeXT, and FSF's GCC.

There has been some talk of FSF incorporating some sort of Objective-C support
into GCC, but does this mean a GNU Objective-C preprocessor?  The Objective-C
compiler/translator is a product of Stepstone Technology that I believe NeXT
is bundling with the NeXT Machine.  Certainly they could use GCC as a C 
compiler backend, but what changes need to be made to GCC to support 
Objective-C?

A view of the bigger picture would be appreciated since I haven't read the 
"NeXT Book".

   Shaun

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