From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11442 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2010 18:55:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 11432 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Sep 2010 18:55:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:55:22 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38803) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtmHL-00032l-3n for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:55:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtmHH-0001dl-L0 for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:55:20 -0400 Received: from smtp190.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.190]:39536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtmHH-0001dh-I1 for gcc@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:55:19 -0400 Received: from relay29.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay29.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id E4D9F1B415A; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dynamic3.wm-web.iad.mlsrvr.com (dynamic3.wm-web.iad.mlsrvr.com [192.168.2.152]) by relay29.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D97671B4140; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from meta-innovation.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dynamic3.wm-web.iad.mlsrvr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC0A332006E; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:55:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by www2.webmail.us (Authenticated sender: nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com, from: nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com) with HTTP; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:55:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:55:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes From: "Nicola Pero" To: "Chris Lattner" Cc: gcc@gnu.org, "Mike Stump" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Type: plain In-Reply-To: <7D26207D-710B-4D53-BEA4-ACD4162B775A@apple.com> References: <239130DD-ACDD-4758-B19B-40BA9D2CE4AE@meta-innovation.com> <7D26207D-710B-4D53-BEA4-ACD4162B775A@apple.com> Message-ID: <1284058516.57874296@192.168.2.229> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 Chris thanks a lot for your answer. That makes sense - I had not realized that m= ost of the Apple GCC Objective-C / Objective-C++ changes=20 were already sitting on the FSF servers in an Apple branch :-) Can someone= from the FSF confirm that it's OK to merge code from there ? I did look at the branch, and it contains most of the functionality (so it'= s very useful) but unfortunately it's quite old=20 (eg. it's still using c-parse.in to parse). Why don't you upload one of the recent Apple GCC tarballs in a branch on th= e FSF server ? It won't change/cost anything for Apple=20 (the code is already distributed to the world under GPL v2+) but it means c= hanges could be merged back into the FSF GCC which could have much better support for Apple platforms. More choice of compilers for= Apple users is surely good for Apple. :-) You don't have to do it, but contributing changes back to the original proj= ect seems to be the right, honourable thing to do, particularly when it doesn't cost anything. And most/all improvements you = make to GCC are for Apple machines, so certainly you want these improvements back into the FSF GCC to get more software work= on Apple machines and sell more of them. :-) Thanks