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Lorenzo De Leon <lorenzod@mcs.com> writes:

>cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) wrote:
>>Ted.Belding@umich.edu (Theodore C. Belding) writes:
>>
>>>The NeXTSTEP manual _Object-oriented programming and the 
>>>objective C language_ by NeXT says on p173-176 that C++ code
>>>can be combined with Objective C code using their compiler.
>>>Since the NeXT compiler is essentially gcc, from what I've heard,
>>>I was wondering if this is also possible using gcc, or if it
>>>is only possible under NeXTSTEP.  I didn't see
>>>anything on this in the online gcc docs or in the g++ or ObjC FAQs.
>>>Are there any command-line options that are necessary to do this?
>>>Would I invoke gcc or g++?  Thanks for any info!
>>
>>Currently, no mixing in one source file possible. You have to write
>>C++ and ObjC source in seperate files and make them communicate via C
>>structs and simple C functions.
>>
>>The runtimes seems compatible, some test programs of mine worked (but
>>didn't stress it).
>>
>>Martin
>>-- 

>A .M (versus a .m) file can have both Objective C and C++. The object 
>structures are different of course.

My gcc-2.6.3-ObjC-Patches doesn't even recognize *.M as source file at
all. It's hard to beleive anyway since there is no common
parser. Where does this information come from?

Martin
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