[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Objective-C

[Andre Lipinski]

Nathan,

Okay, sounds good...

I see from the CodeSourcery site that you've got G++ compilers -- are  
these substantially modified(cut-down) or enhanced from GCC? I've  
also been through the GCC project site and found that your staff  
contribute much to GCC and are largely responsible for improved  
ColdFire support in GCC which is just WONDERFUL!

I'm a Mac SW engineer and have many years of ObjC experience, and  
many Mb of source code, some of which I'd like to reuse in an  
embedded project I'm working on. I'd like to see a ColdFire  
development and debug environment on Mac OS X using XCode if  
possible, Eclipse if necessary. If successful it could be a boon to  
Mac developers who are keen on ColdFire and want a "mainstream"  
embedded solution without giving up their Macs.

I'd like to get your opinion of what might be involved in making this  
happen. I think building a toolchain should be quite doable based on  
what I've read at the GCC site and your comments this morning. But  
putting it all together with hardware (I'm thinking a NetBurner 5282  
based module) and actually getting it to work could be
something I'm not prepared to do. I certainly am prepared to spend  
significant time on this, but don't want to "reinvent the wheel."

Could you please help me understand what I'm getting myself into?

Best,
Andre.

On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

> Andre ,
>> I've been looking for tools to use Objective-C with a ColdFire  
>> based system. I see that a number of your staffers have  
>> contributed to libobjc in GCC and wonder if your tools support  
>> development in ObjC?
>
> We've not tried building Objective-C for ColdFire.  The tools  
> should work with objective-c enabled, just as well as any other  
> objective-c system.
>
> nathan
>
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