[patch] fix tfmode for i386-darwin

[Eric Christopher]

On May 25, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Geoffrey Keating wrote:

>
> On 24/05/2007, at 11:29 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>> So, when Uros added the tfmode support he forgot darwin :)
>>
>> This does that, the problem is that darwin doesn't really support  
>> strong aliases. There's a workaround of doing this via some  
>> assembly that'll work unless we do some odd rearrangements at link  
>> or load time. That said I'm a little leery of checking this in for  
>> that reason.
>>
>> Geoff, what do you think?
>
> Mach-O does not, has not, and will not, support aliases in any  
> form.  It can and will do odd rearrangements at link time (for  
> example, when using 'order files' or 'dead code stripping').  You'd  
> need to write little stub routines, along the lines of 'int fooTI 
> (int a, int b) { return fooElse(a, b); }'.

Yeah, that was the other idea, I wasn't thinking of libgcc.a here and  
was just thinking of dynamic linking where we're not rearranging  
things. I'll write the stubs up.

thanks.

-eric