Re: Objective Gnu?

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 19:48

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In article <124947@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Randy Burns writes:
| I had heard something to the effect that NeXT was going to make their
| Objective C compiler GNUware. Now this sounds really nice, but there
| still is a problem: the NeXT objective C compiler will still only run
| on NeXT machines (which have a highly proprietary design). It seems to me
| that this meets the letter of the law without really enhancing the 
| availability of standard GNUware particularly.

What is it about the NeXT that makes the compiler useless elsewhere?
Mach style object files?  Calling conventions?  What?  (In a previous
release, 0.8, Sun3 4.0 static binaries would execute without change on
a NeXT.)

Second, how does this violate the Copyleft agreement?  I mean, if they
mutate GCC into a new compiler, which they then give away, how can you
complain???
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Scott Schwartz		<schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>

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Subject: Re: Objective Gnu?
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