From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-08-09T13:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Ruby to Native Code?

On Thursday 08 August 2002 09:42 pm, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
<snip>
> Are you trying to say that if I do:
>
> gcc -x objective-c -o test test.m -lobjc
>
> the resulting executable is *NOT* native code?  All I've been trying to
> say is that a native code compiler does exist for Objective-C, and
> dynamic typing has not stopped NeXT/GCC from making it.
<snip>

What no one seems to have mentioned about Obj-C is that:  Yes, it is compiled 
with gcc but will not run without the runtime package.  The run time package 
is required to handle the dynamism in Obj-C that is not in pure C.