__builtin_apply/sparc.md problem on SPARC-Solaris ?

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 21 23:18:00 GMT 1998


On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 12:50:42PM +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> I had problems using the objc_msg_sendv() function from the Objective-C
> runtime. Since the function relies on __builtin_apply() I wonder whether
> something is wrong with this in egcs-SPARC and whether such a problem is
> known.

Very well known.  __builtin_apply will not work on any machine
that doesn't simply push arguments on the stack.

The extention is an abomination and should be removed.


r~



More information about the Gcc mailing list