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Re: __builtin_apply/sparc.md problem on SPARC-Solaris ?
- To: Helge Hess <hh at mdlink dot de>, egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: __builtin_apply/sparc.md problem on SPARC-Solaris ?
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:18:05 -0700
- References: <362C6B02.A319564@mdlink.de>
- Reply-To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 12:50:42PM +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> I had problems using the objc_msg_sendv() function from the Objective-C
> runtime. Since the function relies on __builtin_apply() I wonder whether
> something is wrong with this in egcs-SPARC and whether such a problem is
> known.
Very well known. __builtin_apply will not work on any machine
that doesn't simply push arguments on the stack.
The extention is an abomination and should be removed.
r~