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

[David Chisnall]

On 4 May 2009, at 21:07, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> And what if we are actually
> on a i386? And what should we do when we are on a machine where gcc  
> does
> not provide that new build in? Currently NSIncrementExtraRefCount  
> works
> slowly on such machines, but it works.

Actually, it doesn't.  If we are on i386, the original inline asm is  
used.  This uses instructions which are not present on 386 chips, and  
so will fail at runtime.  This change just means that it now fails at  
link time instead, which is probably an improvement, although a small  
one.

David