From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24469 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2002 23:20:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24458 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 23:20:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 23:20:16 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA29332; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D890A2D.E91793ED@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:20:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Klee Dienes CC: jingham@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Decide: "Objective-C" or "Objective C"? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00441.txt.bz2 Klee Dienes wrote: > > All documentation I've ever seen (the original NeXT documents, the > current Apple documentation, and the majority of FSF documentation) > refer to it as "Objective-C" (with the hyphen). One could argue that > it should be otherwise, but my inclination would be to just treat it as > a proper name and move on to more interesting issues. > > As far as history goes, the majority of the Objective-C support was in > place by the time I started working on GDB at Apple. I did a fair bit > of hacking on the Objective-C code when I re-ported GDB to NeXT/Apple > based on the 4.16 sources in 1999. Jim Ingham and I have been doing > bugfixes on it since then, but we haven't really had to change it > overly much. To be honest, it was my understanding that you had > written a large portion of it; I fear that any previous authors may be > lost in the depths of time. I'll do a bit of archaeology and see what > I can dig up. > > I'm really excited to see someone working to get the changes accepted > into the mainline sources; I've taken a quick look, and they look like > a great distillation of the Obj-C work. We'd be thrilled to see them > accepted; they'd help our merge work considerably. I'm merging Adam's > patches into our current sources now to make sure they match as much as > possible; I'll put up a new GDB tarball for reference as soon as I'm > done. OK! I'll clean up the varying usages of "Objective[ -]C". So, six years later, I finally get to check this stuff in! ;-) Michael