Re: building gnustep-base-1.8.0 on Max OS X 10.3.2

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mar 17, 2004, at 14:25, Bill Northcott wrote:

> On 17/03/2004, at 4:31 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > The reason why __builtin_return/__builtin_apply_args were broken so 
> > long were because
> > they were added just for GNU's libobjc and really no one should be 
> > using them.  I hope
> > to remove the usage of these builtins in a future libobjc so they can 
> > be removed from
> > GCC the next release after the one which uses libffi.
> So where can I get up to date and reasonably portable libffi code 
> which will work on Darwin/MacOS X?  The last official release is 1.2.

This is an easy one, you can use the one from GCC itself.
The one included in GCC is almost the official one now. I mean almost 
as there is a
movement to get it copyrighted by the FSF so it can be official part of 
GCC.
In fact gcj in GCC uses libffi just fine and there is a nice testsuite 
in GCC's version
of libffi for it.
Most of the current work done for libffi is being done by Andreas 
Tobler who also did
the port to PPC darwin.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski