Re: [PATCH v5] Enable xwidgets on macOS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:23:20 -0400
> 
>   > > In GNU C, I implemented nested functions, with names.
>   > > Anonymous nested functions should not take much extra work.
> 
>   > But if Emacs cannot be built on macOS using GCC, this is a moot point,
>   > right?
> 
> Not entirely.  It means that GCC could implement the ObjC blocks feature.

I think we are miscommunicating.  Emacs cannot currently be built with
GCC for reasons that are unrelated to the ObjC blocks feature, see
this discussion:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00039.html

So even if the GCC folks implement the blocks feature, the main
obstacle for using GCC on macOS will still stand, and will prevent us
from supporting a GCC build of Emacs on macOS.