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From: loffredd@rpics (Dave Loffredo)
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Subject: Re: OBJECTIVE-C COMPATIBLE WITH XLIB AND XTLIB?
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Date: 21 Dec 88 16:50:44 GMT
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In article <8812200759.AA06418@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> ISSLCK@NUSVM.BITNET 
(Law Chee Keong) writes:

>Can anyone tell me if I can use Objective-C to call Xlib and Xtlib
>functions.

	I am starting a project which may require doing exactly
	this and see no possible incompatibility.   There
	is really nothing in either package (to my knowledge)
	that precludes their mutual use.

>If yes, does that imply that it is possible to link code written in
>Objective-C with object code or library files written in C?

	Of course it is!  I do it all the time! The Objective-C
	compiler just performs a precompile into "straight" C.  
	When you eventually link modules, you are just linking 
	normal ".o" files ... same as always. 

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