Re: Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Dale Johannesen]

On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I believe that since the GNUstep project is a GNU project and since 
> > both Apple
> > and GNUstep current depend on GCC's ObjC frontend, that the policy of 
> > not
> > considering bugs in ObjC as showstoppers needs to end.  I would like 
> > to know
> > what the reasons are behind the decision this policy is.
> >
> > The current regressions in the ObjC compiler will make it very 
> > difficult for
> > both the GNUstep project and, in my opinion, Apple to continue to use 
> > gcc
> > without making modifications.   Indeed, releasing a broken ObjC 
> > compiler could
> > cause a great deal damage to both the relationship of GCC with Apple 
> > and the
> > GNUstep project.
> >
> > To my understanding a patch was submitted to correct these 
> > regressions and was
> > rejected.  Links available here:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-12/msg00889.html
> As RTH, points out, the patch is wrong, and isn't fixing the real 
> problem.
> Patches that paper over problems instead of fixing them generally 
> aren't accepted.
> Maybe so if they only touched the front end, but this one doesn't.

It looks like the code in that patch could simply be moved into the 
ObjC-specific langhook
for gimplify_expr.