Re: [bug #4189] broken bycopy in DO

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 01:30  pm, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 01:12  pm, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > > After updating -base with this fix, just about every single GNUstep
> > > program now dumps core (at start, or very soon after starting). After
> > > digging around a bit, it turns out that -base is now incompatible 
> > > with
> > > gcc <3.3, and I'm using 3.2.
> >
> > I can't think of any obvious reason for that ... presumably a bug in 
> > the
> > earlier compiler, in which case we will need a workaround.
>
> I have a machine with gcc-3.0 ... I'll have a look at it on that to 
> try to
> figure out what's going on.

I haven't been able to get any crashes with my DO applications built 
with gcc-3.0
Perhaps I'm not trying the correct apps.
The other possibility that occurs to me is that you were too quick off 
the mark
checking out the fixes ... I did that the changes sometimes triggered a 
bug
in the implementation of Protocol in the runtime, and added (as a 
temporary
hack) a category in NSObject.m to work around the bug.  Perhaps you 
don't
have that from cvs yet?