Re: Apple's Objective-C language patch

Andrew Cagney
2002-09-10T03:49:16Z

> Jason Molenda wrote:
>
> What is the history behind objc-exp.y? Is this from the old
> gnustep-gdb patch that'd been floating around since the mid-90's
> (the one that Michael Snyder wrote while at NeXT)? The Apple
> sources have the ObjC support rolled in c-exp.y; it doesn't seem
> unreasonable given the overlap between the two expression syntaxes.
>
>
> I got everything, including objc-exp.y from the 'recent' Apple patch. I haven't looked at the latest Apple sources - I didn't know if I should do that since Andrew Cagney told me to work from the patch, but perhaps I misunderstood.

Yes, I would have requested this.

Believe it or not, very recently added to my things to do today list is
to get an answer to the question: can a third party take random
Apple/GDB sources and contribute them to the FSF.

Andrew