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Re: patch#3 disable the libgcj interpreter under darwin
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>, GCC-Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:07:24 +1300
- Subject: Re: patch#3 disable the libgcj interpreter under darwin
- References: <3C330A3C.2978B313@pop.agri.ch> <87k7v0zs0l.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Andreas" == Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>Andreas> * configure.host
>Andreas> disable the interpreter for darwin(ppc)
>
>Why do we need to disable the interpreter here?
>Does Darwin have an ABI that isn't supported by libffi?
>Or do we instead just need to add some configury to libffi?
>
libffi now has Darwin ABI support (from John Hornkvist) but it doesn't
support closures yet. So, the Darwin support is good enough for
reflection but not for the interpreter. This is something I'll probibly
try to implement once all the other issues with Darwin are resolved.
regards
Bryce.