Re: [patch #4206] libobjc: Extend protocol hack to all gcc versions

[Jeremy Bettis]

Gcc has a libobjc also, but the code I patched was from gnustep's CVS 
server, not gcc's.

Let's take one step at a time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
To: "Jeremy Bettis" <savannah-bounces@gnu.org>
Cc: "Jeremy Bettis" <jeremy@deadbeef.com>; <bug-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [patch #4206] libobjc: Extend protocol hack to all gcc versions


> > Follow-up Comment #1, patch #4206 (project gnustep):
> >
> > HA! I found the real problem, and have undid this icky hack.
> >
> > It was a complex situation.  You had to have 2 protocols, where the first 
> > one
> > was used by a class, and the second was not.  Also you had to have a 
> > Category
> > which implemented a protocol which inherited from a protocol not used by 
> > any
> > class, and the protocol had to not be the first one in the module symbol
> > table.
> >
> > whew.
> >
> > In any case, this new patch deals with this.
> >
> > 2 changes,
> > 1) we need to initalize all statics, even if the first one is initalized.
> > 2) we need to call __objc_init_protocols on the super-protocols even if 
> > the
> > protocol itself is initialized.
>
> libobjc is part of GCC, could you submit a GCC bug as attach the patch 
> there.
> Please make sure that you have a testcase.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Pinski
> a libobjc maintainer