snaroff@gonzo (Steve Naroff) (05/25/91)
Simply stated, NeXT software is not (in any way) dependent on Stepstone. More detail...the NeXT C Compiler for the Objective C Language has been based on the GNU compiler starting with version 1.0 of NextStep. At that time, we released all NeXT modifications to the GNU tools to the Free Software Foundation. FSF decided to wait until version 2.0 of GCC (which is currently under development) before folding these changes into the mainstream release. Hope this helps, Stephen Naroff Manager, Software Development Tools