From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28250 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2002 22:19:45 -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 28243 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 22:19:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out1.apple.com) (17.254.0.52) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 22:19:45 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8IMJgh22072 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:19:36 -0700 Received: from molly.local. (vpn-scv-x2-159.apple.com [17.219.193.159]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8IMJdb01476; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:19:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Decide: "Objective-C" or "Objective C"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: jingham@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com To: Michael Snyder From: Klee Dienes In-Reply-To: <3D88DCF4.822ED319@redhat.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00434.txt.bz2 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. On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 04:07 PM, Michael Snyder wrote: > > Hello Jim, Klee, > > We just got a submission of apple's gdb support for objective c > from Adam Fedor at GNU. I was hoping you could supply us with > a little history, author's names etc, to go into the changelog. > > Also, first question: Should the name of the language (in comments > etc.) be "Objective-C", or "Objective C" (hyphen or no)? > > Thanks, > Michael