Re: GNUstep on Darwin!

[Adam Fedor]

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 08:25 AM, David Ayers wrote:

> But also note that DO (which is needed for the paste board server 
> (read -gui/AppKit), distributed notification center and....) currently 
> doesn't work.  Maybe because Apple's runtime doesn't provide us with 
> the hooks used by ffcall/libffi invocation (see __objc_msg_forward).  
> I'm not sure if that is the current issue or whether it has to do with 
> typed selectors or something completely different.

There's at least a few issues.

One is that the Apple runtime seems to do some odd memory management 
stuff, which interacts badly with GNUstep behaviors in base 
(Source/Additions/behavior.m). Although It might just be a bad 
implementation on our part.

Also, the Apple runtime probably does closures differently than we do 
it. Getting a hook into their runtime would allow us to take over that. 
But perhaps __builtin_apply just works on Darwin, in which case we 
don't need libffi or anything...