From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 16:14:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F16337B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE50743FA3 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 17975 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2003 23:14:03 -0000 Received: from kingdom.mykroft.com (HELO explosive.mail.net) (205.205.25.113) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 17 Jul 2003 23:14:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3F172F76.7050306@explosive.mail.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:21:26 -0400 From: Mykroft Holmes IV User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lin Jianfong References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of definitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:14:52 -0000 Objective-C is the other OOP variant of C, and reportedly much easier to program in. It's still in heavy use in the Mac World, being one of the two main languages for Cocoa Programming, but isn't much used in the rest of the world, apart from maybe GNUStep (Objective-C was the primary language used in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP software.) Adam Lin Jianfong wrote: > As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++, an object > oriented C, and I doubt if anyone is still using it nowadays. As for > re-entrant, this is used when doing thread programming. > > I didn't bother with these either when upgrading a 4.7 box to 4.8. > > >> From: "Joshua Lokken" >> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" >> Subject: A couple of definitions >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:35:08 -0700 >> >> Hello >> >> I am going through /etc/defaults/make.conf (4-stable) and am >> at a loss concerning two items: Objective C support, and >> libc_r (re-entrant version of libc). What are those? I built >> the world recently without them, and I'm not witnessing any >> problems, but I'm curious. Google got me some answers >> I couldn't understand... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -- >> Best Regards, >> >> Joshua Lokken >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"