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GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.6.1
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GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.7
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===============================
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This is a point release to the seventh official release of the GNUstep
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This is a point release to the eighth official release of the GNUstep
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Objective-C runtime (a.k.a. libobjc2). This runtime was designed to support
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the features of Objective-C 2 for use with GNUstep and other Objective-C
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programs. Highlights of this release include:
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- Improved support for ARC autorelease pools.
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- A new CMake-based build system
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- Some small bug fixes in blocks support.
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- A new exception implementation providing better integration with foreign
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exceptions (e.g. C++ exceptions) (TODO)
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- Improvements to the Objective-C++ unified exception model support.
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- MIPS64 support in the assembly routines (TODO)
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- Updated optimisation passes to work with LLVM 3.1
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- Updated optimisation passes to work with LLVM 3.2
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You may obtain the code for this release from subversion at the following
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subversion branch:
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svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/1.6.1
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svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/1.7
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Alternatively, a tarball is available from:
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http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.6.1.tar.bz2
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http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.7.tar.bz2
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The runtime library is responsible for implementing the core features of the
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object model, as well as exposing introspection features to the user. The
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@ -35,7 +36,5 @@ with the FSF's GCC 4.2.1 Objective-C ABI and also implements a new ABI that is
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supported by Clang and Étoilé's LanguageKit and is required for some of the
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newer features.
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Although the runtime has been tested by several people, and is being used
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extensively by the Étoilé project, it is relatively new code and may still
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contain bugs. If you come across any problems, please report them to the
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GNUstep Developer mailing list <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>.
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If you come across any problems, please report them to the GNUstep Developer
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mailing list <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>.
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