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Re: please confirm serious objective-c bug in gcc-4.x.x
- From: Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle at gmail dot com>
- To: MSX to GCC <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:54 -0400
- Subject: Re: please confirm serious objective-c bug in gcc-4.x.x
- References: <48603131.2010008@gmail.com>
Robert William Fuller wrote:
Forwarding is broken for Objective-C on x86_64, but it works on i386.
The self pointer is wrong after a message is forwarded on x86_64. Here's
the output, and the sample code:
<snip>
I've entered this into the bug database. Please refer to
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36610.
Any idea on when a fix might be available? I have a free software
project that is on hold, https://gna.org/projects/cued/, until I can get
a fix :-)
This is a pretty serious bug. As an aside, it probably explains why
GNUstep has serious issues on x86_64.
Thank you.
Regards,
Robert W. Fuller