A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production.

The article describes the development and production of Objective-C computer programming language implementation runtime system for use with the Étoilé open source software project. Particular focus is given to the emphasis on backward compatibility with other programming languages. Topics include t...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 9; pp. 44 - 48
Autor principal:	Chisnall, David
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Sep2012
Materias:	Objective-C (Computer program language) Run time systems (Computer science) Open source software Software compatibility Computer software development Computer software research
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Sumario:	The article describes the development and production of Objective-C computer programming language implementation runtime system for use with the Étoilé open source software project. Particular focus is given to the emphasis on backward compatibility with other programming languages. Topics include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) software released by the the Free Software Foundation, application binary interface (API) between software and operating systems, and the creation and modification of method lookup functions.