* the objc unit links against the Foundation instead of against the Cocoa
framework, and inludes an interface to either the fragile or non-fragile
obj-c run time depending on the target platform
+ support for the non-fragile Objective-C runtime/ABI, as used on Mac OS X
for ARM (iPhone) 64 bit (PowerPC/64, x86_64) -- all these targets now
are now also supported for the objectivec1 modeswitch
+ support for private_extern symbol bindings, required for the above
* mark objcclasses that are declared in the implementation section of a
unit as "hidden" (not sure what the effect is, since the Objective-C
runtime does not seem to do anything with this flag)
* enabled all obj-c tests for the newly supported platforms
git-svn-id: branches/objc@13763 -
starting with a previous 2.3.1 or compiler built from the objc branch
+ added basic objcprotocol support (only for external protocols
currently)
o use in type declaration: "type xp = objcprotocol ... end;"
o when defining a root class that implements it:
"type yc = objcclass(xp) ... end" (note: no support yet
for something like "objcclass(id,xp)" or so)
o when defining a non-root class that implements a protocol:
"type zc = objcclass(nsobject,xp) ... end"
o includes support for "required" and "optional" sections
o no support yet for the objcprotocol(<protocol>) expression
that enables getting a class instance representing the
protocol (e.g., for use with "conformsToProtocol:")
o message names have to specified in protocol declarations,
but if an objcclass implements a protocol, the message names do
not have to be repeated (but if they are, they have to match;
the same goes when overriding inherited methods)
+ allow specifying the external name of Objective-C classes and
protocols, since classes and protocols can have the same name
(and you cannot use the same Pascal identifier in such caseq)
+ added NSObject protocol, and make the NSObject class use it
+ added missing NSObject class methods that have the same name
as instance methods (added "class" name prefix to avoid clashes)
* fixed several cases where the compiler did not treat Objective-C
classes/protocols the same as Object Pascal classes/interfaces
(a.o., forward declarations, alignment, regvars, several type
conversions, ...)
* allow "override" directive in objcclass declarations, and print
a hint if it's forgotten in an external declaration (because it
doesn't really matter there, and may make automated header
conversion harder than necessary) and an error if will be used in
a non-external declaration (because it is not possible to start
a new vmt entry-tree in Objective-C, you can only override parent
methods)
* reject objcclasses/protocols as parameters to typeof()
* don't try to test VMT validity of objcclasses/protocols
git-svn-id: branches/objc@13375 -
