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27 lines
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This is an independent implementation of Objective C - independent
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of Stepstone's, NeXT's, GNU's (Free Software Foundation) or SunSoft's
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Objective C implementation.
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Like the GNU compiler, the "objc" grammar is written in YACC. The lexical
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ananlyzer is written in LEX, and the compiler itself in the Bourne
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shell and in Objective C. (the optional Objective C link editor is
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written in AWK).
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Includes:
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1. "objc", the actual compiler
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2. "objcrt", the Objective C Runtime Library for "objc"
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3. "objpak", the "Object Pak" Objective C Collection Classes
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4. Source of compiler and "oclib", a set of Objective C classes for
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parsing C (and the Objective C extensions to C)
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NICE FEATURES
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1. Easy to install or to modify.
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2. Works on many systems with the native cc, debugger, profiler etc.
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3. Built-in possibility of tracing Objective C messages.
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4. Straightforward "pure C" messenger; "inline cache" messenger.
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5. All classes get a +initialize message at start-up, rather than
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'each class receives a +initialize before it receives its first
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message'.
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6. Already partial support for C++ compilers (will soon be workable)
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7. Great system for experimentation with your own additions/extensions
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to Objective C ! [ but beware - we are likely to oppose them ]
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