Re: Problem with gdnc on Solaris 2.8 sparc

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, February 8, 2001, at 02:24 PM, <jzahorsky@ales.cz> wrote:

> > Run the incocation tests in base/Testing .... they should work. 
>  
> I try run invocation test from base/Testing and here is the result: 
>  
<snip>
>  
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. 
> 0xff2410a8 in _i_NSInvocation__invokeWithTarget_ () 
>    from 
> /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Libraries/sparc/solaris2.8/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so.0
>  
> (gdb) bt 
> #0  0xff2410a8 in _i_NSInvocation__invokeWithTarget_ () 
>    from 
> /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Libraries/sparc/solaris2.8/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so.0
>  
> #1  0x13bd8 in gnustep_base_user_main () at nsinvocation.m:213 
> #2  0xff26cc00 in main () 
>    from 
> /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Libraries/sparc/solaris2.8/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so.0
>  
>  
> (gdb)  
>  
>  
> It's possible that my problem is caused that I have an old objc runtime 
> (libobjc) ? 

Almost certainly you either need a compiler patch or (better) you need to use 
ffcall.
To use ffcall you need to use the latest objc runtime.  This is available on the
gnustep ftp site.