Re: Small change in NSObject.m ASM needed for PowerPC build

[David Chisnall]

On 3 May 2009, at 17:26, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> David Chisnall wrote:
> > On i386, you need -march=i586 or higher for this to work.  The  
> > existing code will break at runtime, rather than link time, on an  
> > 80486 and earlier, and so I assume (from the fact no one has  
> > complained) that no one is using GNUstep on a 386/486.
> Well, how old is that code? Up to about a year ago I built and used  
> GNUstep on a 486-class machine, although the CPU was not genuine  
> intel but a compatible processor which was based on 488 ISA, it did  
> work...

As I said in my other email, I was mistaken about when the atomic ops  
were introduced.  They should work with -march=486, not just - 
march=586 - it works for me with no manually-set CFLAGS or modified  
GNUmakefile, on GCC 4.2.

David