Re: [Fwd: [gentoo-security] pax and objc]

[Andrew Pinski]

> 
> Still relevant cross-posting..
> 
> On 2004-07-02 14:13:45 -0400 Riccardo Mottola <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
> What troubled me, is that when compiling gcc by hand, with all 
> appropriate language options for Objective-C, including: 
> --enable-shared=libffi, libffi was simply not built what so ever.  
> This symptom of it being "parked" as you said, is pretty bad.  That 
> and the libffi version from latest gcc cvs wasn't recognized by 
> gnustep-back at all, so AFAIK gcc-3.3.3 contains the last libffi 
> release that works for me (thought I haven't tried gcc 3.4.x yet).

GCC 3.4.0's libffi adds support for powerpc-apple-darwin and some other
targets.  Note to build libffi when you build GCC you have to build with
java language, there is a bug in GCC's bug database which asks for libffi
to build even though java support is not asked for, I am working on that.

I think also a major bug for sparc was fixed in gcc 3.4.0's libffi.

> It's just not a good scenario when the default gcc of most distro's is 
> somewhere between 3.2.x and 3.3.x, at the moment, and the best libffi 
> version available in gcc-3.3.3 is libffi-2.00_beta.  Someone mentioned 
> that libffi was being actively maintained again, but this may be the 
> case in the 3.5.x branch, but I have not seen much life previously.

Note that there is no 3.5 branch, it is just the head and there has
been a couple patches posted lately on the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list.
For an example IA64 support 
<http//gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01762.html>.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

PS sorry for no collons, my terminal is messed up.