Re: Is ObjC++ still in time for 4.0?

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>]

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

> On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:58 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> > I wanted to ask what the current status of Objective-C++ for
> > mainline gcc is. While there have been a lot of activity on the
> > gcc-patches and gcc-cvs lists several month ago it is now relatively
> > silent regarding this topic. Is all the work done now or did the
> > release plan slip backwards (to 4.1 or whatever)?
> 
> Last I knew, everything was solidly wedged behind Geoff's objection
> with no plan forward.  The objection will either have to be withdrawn,
> or Geoff will have to communicate his vision before any progress can
> be made.

Zem is asking me to design his frontend's data structures for him.  I
don't have time to do that right now, and Zem hasn't done the design
work himself, so we're waiting.

My last comment to Zem was:

> I still don't really know enough, but my best guess is that you
> should put an extra field in the lang_type structure for C, and in
> lang_type_class for C++.  Try that and let me know how it goes.

and so far as I know, he hasn't tried it yet.