ObjectiveC 2.0 support - toolchain?

[JLA]

Does the toolchain GCC (specifically one compiled last November) support ObjectiveC 2.0 (e.g. the @property tag)?
When compiling, I get a "Leopard only" warning...
JLA

[Cobra]

No. Rather the iphone OS released so far does not support ObjC 2.0 (it's a half way point between Tiger and Leopard.) It sounds like the SDK beta 2.0 is ObjC 2.0 without garbage collection.

[JLA]

Thanks...but deg gommit...
It seems that without garbage collection, ObjC2.0 is a glorified set of macros...
I wish there were some way that properties could be parsed by a compiler and converted into the traditional ObjC1.0 methods behind the scenes.

[Cobra]

Huh, not sure what you mean. Preference/plist files can be loaded direct to dictionaries. I'm confused by your properties / ObjC comments.

[JLA]

I mean as far as I see it, the parts of ObjC that are new to 2.0 that I use are similar to macro...they don't offer much new functionality, but rather save time.

@property(retain, readwrite) NSObject* exampleProperty;
----
@synthesize exampleProperty=myVariable;

is (I assume) just like plugging in the code:

- (void) setExampleProperty: (NSObject*) aValue
{
[aValue retain];
[myVariable release];
myVariable=aValue;
}

-(NSObject*) exampleProperty
{
return myVariable;
}

Now I'm sure they do more stuff behind the scenes (serialization perhaps?), but I just wish an entire different runtime wasn't required. Would it be possible to implement the objC_setProperty(...) [etc] method to enable this behavior?