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

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mar 12, 2004, at 20:22, Bill Northcott wrote:

> > Subject: Re: building gnustep-base-1.8.0 on Max OS X 10.3.2
> > I think there are a couple of people that managed to build it.
>
> My futzing on mframe dug out some bugs in gcc-3.3.x on PowerPC (and 
> probably other RISC cpus) relating to the builtin functions in 
> particular __builtin_return and __builtin_apply_args.
>
> These are known to the gcc folks and have been patched in the CVS in 
> recent weeks.  They are slated for the 3.4 release.  The relevant 
> bugzilla numbers with patches are 11151, 12503 and 12629.
>
> I do not know if these will stop GNUStep building.  They will 
> certainly brake anything (Distributed Objects?) that uses mframe.
>
> I hope to post a fixed compiler binary in the next couple of days.  If 
> folks here are interested, I will post a link.

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.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
a libobjc maintainer