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One of my associates has the following questions about GCC 2.2.2 and runtime
support.


We're quite sure that GNU's recent compilers support Objective-C sources.

What about runtime support?  Our current code links with a whole bunch of
support stuff.  This is the underlying C code which makes classes, objects,
allocation, freeing, and dispatching all happen.

I suspect we'll need the functionality described in these header files from
/usr/include/objc:

* objc.h (C functions like object_getClassName which implement standard Object
methods)
* objc-runtime.h (support for sending messages, allocation, etc)
* objc-class.h (support for various class operations)
* hashtable.h (hashing is used as part of runtime, although it might not be in
a reimplementation)
* objc-load.h (only to do dynamic loading?)

Is it true that GNU's shipping a compiler which is useless because there's no
runtime support for the calls it emits?  Has GNU overextended themselves, and
if so when will they catch up and how can we help them do so?

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