Re: Memory Leak in GDO

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 10:55 AM, Rene Cornils wrote:
> Ideed, the problem is caused by the usage of ffcall! I've removed
> it and recompiled GNUstep -- and now it works without flaws.
>
> Thank you very mouch Richard.
> Rene
>
>
> BTW: What are the drawbacks of avoiding ffcall (as far as I
> understood, it enables GDO to pass messages between different
> machine types; e.g. Linux-ix86 and LinuxPPC).

Also, the fallback mechanism using gcc features won't correctly
return float/double values (at least with gcc-3.0, can't remember
what ahppened in earlier versions) and generally works partially
(or not at all) on non-ix86 platforms.

Anyway, the ffcall memory leak is now fixed.