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Re: Irix support
Simon writes:
> Rainer Orth wrote:
>
> >Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>>>>"Simon" == Simon <gcj@gornall.net> writes:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>Simon> I was wondering what the status of gcj (or gcc) was on Irix 6.5
> >>Simon> at the moment ?
> >>
> >>I don't know, but...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Some of it works, but there are two problems:
> >
> >* The long standing gcc structure passing bug on IRIX 6 (n32 and n64 ABIs)
> > breaks some of libffi.
This doesn't matter for Java -- Java doesn't pass structs by value.
The libffi closure interface is the main hole.
Andrew.