Re: Objective-C and IA-64 ?

[Helge Hess <helge dot hess at skyrix dot com>]

Jim Wilson wrote:
> There is no support for IA-64 in the gcc 2.95 release.  The IA-64 port was
> contributed after gcc 2.95 was released, and will not be added in.  The IA-64
> port will not appear until there is a gcc 3 release.
> 
> Whether Objective-C works is a separate question.  I expect that it does not,
> because it requires some obscure and often difficult to implement gcc features.
> As yet no one has tried to implement these features for the IA-64 port.  This
> probably will not be fixed before the gcc 3 release, as there is still a lot
> of other more important work that needs to be done.

I would expect that 98% of ObjC will work, since it is almost completly
plain C and AFAIK even uses the C compiler as the basis. Only message
forwarding is likely to be affected and the only part which 'requires
some obscure' features (__builtin_apply and companions).
At least GNUstep and libFoundation are supporting ffcall and/or libffi
for doing forwarding, so if one of those libs is ported, ObjC will work
100%.

So, no need to worry from my perspective :-)

Greetings
  Helge