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>>| hmmmm. cc1obj is only 80k or so bigger than cc1 in gcc 2.7.2.3.
>>| INteresting.
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>>| I mv'ed cc1, and symlinked cc1obj to cc1. make clean, make dep...
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Brandon Allbery
>
>Building the kernel with the Objective C compiler? Why? NeXT port? :-)
>

Built. Big fat one too. Works fine it seems. 1 day of slopping about
invested.

No NeXT port. No clue about Objective-C as a language.

Why? A: Why not?
B: I'm interested in what is a minimal complete Linux-based OS.
My definition of complete is, can maintain and update and add to itself
from source. That means a compiler. That also means it's a Linux/GNU or
whatever you prefer. In the interest of smallness, I don't currently keep
cc1plus or cc1obj around. In 2.7.2.3 the hit for adding Objective-C is
160k or so and slowing the compiler down by 2, and a few easy kernel
tweaks.
In other words, for a 2x slowdown of the compiler and some minor
kernel tweaks my compiler gets 160k larger and I have something
disconcerting to say to the OOP weenies without mentioning Forth. I may
not go that way, but I am glad to know that's an option. That the kernel
is so close to already supporting Objective-C is a side-effect from my
point of view.

Rick Hohensee
cLIeNUX xart H3sm cycluphonics
ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen

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