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Re: RFC: obsolete __builtin_apply?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: "Steven Bosscher" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Cc: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>, sje at cup dot hp dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:44:02 +0000
Subject: Re: RFC: obsolete __builtin_apply?
References: <200703162143.OAA23181@hpsje.cup.hp.com> <de8d50360703161451q52215d36m15d9d5f16215d330@mail.gmail.com> <571f6b510703161456l27ac56d4le1ff76c6fc8ef5@mail.gmail.com>

Steven Bosscher writes:
 > On 3/16/07, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > On 3/16/07, Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com> wrote:
 > > > My thinking is that if libobjc was changed then we could put in a
 > > > depreciated message on these builtins for 4.3 and maybe remove them for
 > > > 4.4.
 > >
 > > libobjc has not changed yet.  There was a patch a while back to change
 > > libobjc to use libffi but I need to go back to it and review it (as it
 > > was before I became a libobjc maintainer).
 > 
 > Do you mean this patch:
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-12/msg00841.html

Are there any performance issues to consider?  Is using libffi
slower/faster than the builtins?

Andrew.

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- RFC: obsolete __builtin_apply?
  - From: Steve Ellcey
- Re: RFC: obsolete __builtin_apply?
  - From: Andrew Pinski
- Re: RFC: obsolete __builtin_apply?
  - From: Steven Bosscher

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