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- From: Steve Naroff <Steve_Naroff@NeXT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 08:35:19 -0700
- To: jjobe@mrj.com (jason jobe)
- Subject: Re: Obtaining runtime info for C++ classes
- Cc: gsk@marble.com, rms@ai.mit.edu, Steve_Naroff@NeXT.COM
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- Here is some quick info on precompiled headers:
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- The precomp format is:
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- - generated by cpp-precomp (NeXT integrated cpp/parser framework)
- - independent of the compiler proper (cc1)
- - intended to support various programming activities (as demonstrated by HeaderViewer/precompiled headers)
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- The current implementation:
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- - supports ANSI-C/Objective-C (not C++)
- - is undocumented (the API might be included in a future release)
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- snaroff.
-
- Begin forwarded message:
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- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 22:59:58 EDT
- From: jjobe@mrj.com (jason jobe)
- To: gsk@marble.com
- Cc: rms@ai.mit.edu, Steve_Naroff@NeXT.COM
- Subject: Obtaining runtime info for C++ classes
-
- I was thinking.
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- What about using the precompiled headers produced by NeXT gcc? Rather than
- hacking extensively on the compiler, much of the information for providing
- runtime information on C++ classes might easily be extracted from them. I
- don't know a lot about the structure of them (lacking in documentation) but
- I believe the NeXT HeaderViewer relies on it exclusively to provide sufficient
- data for viewing the ObjC class hierarchy. Might this work for C++ as well.
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- Jason
- ObjC++ Manager
-