[libdispatch-dev] [PATCH] Support for the GNUstep Objective-C/Blocks runtime
Mark Heily
mark at heily.com
Tue Mar 13 20:46:39 PDT 2012
Hi Niels,
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Niels Grewe <niels.grewe at halbordnung.de>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the GNUstep project maintains an Objective-C runtime library [0] that
> also features support for blocks. Until very recently, we were exposing
> quite a bit less about the block data structures than the blocks runtime
> from compiler-rt, but I just got around to adding them to a public
> header. Now it works like a charm with libdispatch and I was hoping that
> you might be willing to include the attached patch, which enables the
> configure script to detect the presence of a blocks-enabled Objective-C
> runtime.
>
>
While I am glad to hear you are working on getting blocks support added to
GNUstep, I am not sure it makes sense to have a completely different blocks
runtime for Objective-C v.s. ordinary C. Judging by the headers in
libobjc2, it looks like you reimplemented the blocks runtime rather than
copying it verbatim from compiler-rt. That has me somewhat worried about
possible differences and incompatibilities, and I would prefer to use the
"official" blocks runtime if possible.
As an alternative, I have repackaged the blocks runtime found in
compiler-rt, and made a standalone library named libBlocksRuntime [1].
This is currently used for C/C++ programs that use libdispatch, and I would
hope that Objective-C programs could also link against this library.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
- Mark
[1] http://mark.heily.com/project/libblocksruntime
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