Re: [swarm-hackers] GCC 4.x and builtin_apply

[Scott Christley]

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