On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:58 +0200, Come Lonfils wrote: > Hi, > I also need documentation for people who want to "enter" in gcc and to > know how gcc work and how to modify it. I want to know how objective-c > is compiled (translated in c and then compiled?).
Objective-C is parsed and the front-end produces GCC trees directly from the source. The source is never translated into C before compiling, just like the C++ front-end (which is by the way the first direct compiling front-end for C++). Thanks, Andrew Pinski
