Re: [COMMITTED 0/3] Allow front end use of the static chain

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 11/19/14 07:58, Richard Henderson wrote:
> This is the middle-end and C front end parts of the gccgo related
> patch set first posted here.
>
>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-10/msg01009.html
>
> I've re-tested these patches in isolation and have committed them
> to mainline.  I'm currently submitting the Go portions for the
> upstream review, and hope to have to libffi merge complete soon.
>
> I think it's important that the change to Go using the static chain
> happen before gcc5, as it represents an ABI change.  Our next opportunity
> to fix the bulk of the non-x86 targets would be gcc6 in a year's time.
Agreed.  I also feel like we're at a particularly interesting time for 
gcc-go -- there's a fairly high degree of interest particularly due to 
the portability of gcc-go to the non-x86 targets.  If we were to wait on 
this stuff, I fear the momentum we've built up would disappear.

Jeff