Re: c/3711: ICE in instantiate_virtual_regs_1, at function.c:3880

[Adam Fedor]

Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:02:54PM +0000, Nicola Pero wrote:
>
> > Ok - would it make sense then to add a GCC extension allowing to do it ?
>
> No, because ...
>
>
> > Like telling the compiler - I want to call this method and here I put a
> > variable size struct but I want you to make the call as if it were a fixed
> > size struct of this size.
>
> ... that's what libffi is for.


I guess we should seriously think about getting libffi working with 
gnustep-base also. I just checked, and just this month someone has got 
trampolines working for powerpc (I think), so I can actually test it now.




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