Re: GNUstep Launchpad on Irix?

[Fredo]

Helge Hess a écrit :
> 
> Fredo wrote:
> > > what is the latest state of GNUstep Launchpad on Irix (N32 probably, 
> > > 6.5.x)? Is there someone actively 'maintaining' this platform (or should 
> > > I ask what the state of gcc on this arch is...)?
> >
> > I tried some years ago to build gnustep on IRIX 6.5.
> > I sent some patches/bug reports and, hopefully, you can now build
> > successfully gnustep on SGI. Sadly, the objc runtime is broken because
> > the CPU-specific code has yet to be written.
> 
> You are speaking of CPU-specific forwarding code ? This could be a
> non-issue now because of ffcall support in libobjc. I don't know whether
> ffcall (or libffi) supports MIPS CPUs.

You may well be correct :-) It is worth a try. 
Maybe the people who have integrated ffcall support in libobjc can give
us an answer?

Regards, 
Frederic