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Hello folks,I merge patches between the two so they are roughly equivalent. Most of the deltas relate to configuration/build changes.
Anthony Green mentioned that libffi as shipped with GCC is currently for use in gcj. The GNU ObjC runtime which also comes with GCC could also use libffi to implement it's forwarding which currently based on builtin_apply. Currently this is hardly used as far as I'm aware. GNUstep for example builds on top of libffi (or ffcall for older platforms and architectures that libffi doesn't support).
I've been on and off on looking at how ObjC forwarding could be implemented with libffi by libobjc which would enable some long standing PR's to be fixed. The first candidate would be to use the version that currently already resides in GCC to avoid an external dependency.
So my questions are:
1) What exactly is the relation between GCC's libffi and gcj?
2) Is GCC's libffi only needed for the compiler or also for libjavaIt's only used for the runtime, so please go ahead and use GCC's libffi for ObjC.
runtime?
3) Has it been modified in a way that it can only be useful for gcj?No.
4) If it is used by the runtime, would you expect issues if it was alsoNo, I don't think there would be any problems. We link libffi statically into libgcj and recommend that you do the same.
used by the libobjc runtime and a third party ObjC Programm/Library also
used the stock libffi?
Thank you for your time. Cheers, David Ayers
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