Re: Question about message forwarding (with fix)

[David Chisnall]

On 3 Apr 2009, at 00:36, David Ayers wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 02.04.2009, 23:31 +0100 schrieb David Chisnall:
> > On 2 Apr 2009, at 23:17, Larry Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know why ffcall doesn't have the same problem; a quick
> > > glance at GSFFCallInvocation.m leads me to believe it should. Yet my
> > > code that crashes with ffi worked fine with ffcall.
> >
> > The selector handling mechanism in GNU libobjc is horrible.   
> > Selectors
> > can lose type information depending on the order in which they are
> > registered.  It is one of the things I plan on addressing this year.
>
> Is there a GCC/libobjc bug report and/or test case for this?  [I tried
> looking for one and found some low hanging fruit while at it... but I
> didn't come up with anything]

Not sure.  We encountered most of these issues when working on  
supporting prototypes for EScript (ECMAScript-like language for  
Étoilé).  Truls filed a bug report somewhere, but I think it may have  
been against GNUstep rather than GCC.

David