#### 8.1.2 Traditional GNU Objective-C runtime API

The GNU Objective-C runtime used to provide a different API, which we call the “traditional” GNU Objective-C runtime API. Functions belonging to this API are easy to recognize because they use a different naming convention, such as `class_get_super_class()` (traditional API) instead of `class_getSuperclass()` (modern API). Software using this API includes the file `objc/objc-api.h` where it is declared.

Starting with GCC 4.7.0, the traditional GNU runtime API is no longer available.