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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT/GNU license agreement w.r.t. Objective-C
Message-ID: <130131@gore.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 05:25:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / tenny@z.dec.com (Dave Tenny) / Dec 10, 1990 /
> If the implementation of Obj-c by GNU means GNU support of Obj-c,
> then this would imply that the Gnu Obj-c implementations will ultimately
> end up running everywhere that gcc/g++ do.  Is this true?

The 2.0 "gcc" compiler will compile C, C++, and Objective-C (the latter
using work done at NeXT).  However, there is as yet no run-time support for
Objective-C (the messager library) for the GNU distribution.  FSF is
looking for a volunteer to write one.

Jacob
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