Re: State of gnustep under panther?

[Bill Northcott]

> From: Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com>
> Subject: Re: State of gnustep under panther?

> It works, but you need to recompile the FSF gcc -- the gcc in panther
> still has issues with the GNU runtime (Cocoa uses the NeXT Objective-C
> runtime).

What issues?  I use Apple compilers to build Swarm code on Panther 
using the GNU runtime.

I have issues with forwarding of Objective-C messages, but these are 
just the same with the FSF compiler.  They are caused by problems with 
the gcc builtin functions on all RISC processors.  Indeed the relevant 
sections of the gcc code are identical in both Apple and FSF versions.  
(The Apple runtime forwards properly because it uses quite different 
code.)

As far as I can see, the remarks in the README about memory problems 
only apply to Darwin/x86.

Bill Northcott