[cfe-commits] r55417 - in /cfe/trunk: include/clang/AST/ASTContext.h include/clang/AST/Type.h include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticKinds.def include/clang/Basic/LangOptions.h include/clang/Parse/DeclSpec.h lib/AST/ASTContext.cpp lib/AST/Type.cpp lib/AST

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:10 PM, steve naroff <snaroff at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Eli Friedman wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, steve naroff <snaroff at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think it's important to note that *many* language features (ObjC, many
>>>> GCC
>>>> extensions) don't have specifications (yet we've made forward progress,
>>>> using GCC as our reference implementation).
>>>
>>> I wasn't really trying to make a point about whether we need a
>>> specification for everything we implement.  The issue here is that, as
>>> far as I know, there isn't *any* documentation, *any* existing
>>> reference implementation, or even any reference to the existence of
>>> the "blocks" extension publicly available outside of this thread.
>>>
>>
>> Apple shipped a developer preview version of GCC that implements blocks.
>> Since you aren't a registered Apple developer, you are unaware of this
>> (reference) implementation.
>>
>> This is really just a simple issue of timing.
>
> Okay, so there is a reference implementation already... I wasn't aware
> of that.  It's still really difficult to review without any publicly
> available documentation, though.  (That said, I'm a little surprised I
> wasn't able to find anything online about it...)

Although, if there's already a reference implementation in Apple's
gcc, why can't you just post the documentation from there?

-Eli