GCC/ObjC enhancements, comments requested

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:32:37PM -0800, Ovidiu Predescu wrote:
> What we're trying to build is a system that allows us to build a function  
> call at _runtime_, knowing the address of the function, the argument types  
> and the return value.

Why?

> GCC currently implements only half  
> of this support with the __builtin_apply() and __builtin_return()  
> pseudo-functions.

GCC doesn't even pretend to get even these right for targets that 
don't pass all arguments on the stack.  Certainly it doesn't work
on the Alpha, which is one of the simpler examples.


r~