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Re: [swarm-hackers] GCC 4.x and builtin_apply
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Scott Christley |
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Re: [swarm-hackers] GCC 4.x and builtin_apply |
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:30:14 -0700 |
On Oct 26, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Scott Christley wrote:
Anybody using GCC 4.x on Linux? Swarm compiles fine but fails make
check on the forwarding test. I was having this same problem on
Fedora8 but I'm also seeing it on Debian.
Forwarding is only invoked for foreign objects (Java), so only worry
about it for that.
I think it's probably best to write and maintain new code for this,
or find someone else that really does (e.g. Apple?), for a few ABIs
that we really care about. The flaw in for the setup of the return
frame for the forward: call, the retval_t struct.
We can rely upon GNUstep and Apple for those configurations, the
question is about the standard Swarm. One possibility is to always
rely upon gnustep-base, the non-GUI portion, for Linux and Windows.
It should still be possible to have a tcl/tk/blt GUI. I would have
been hesitant to suggest this before, but these days gnustep-base is
practically complete and solid, and increasingly available on all the
standard Linux distributions.
Scott