[bugs #11188] configure check for __objc_msg_forward (checking "for forwarding callback in runtime") should be rewritten

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11188>
Project: GNUstep
Submitted by: 0
On: Wed 12/01/04 at 21:35

Category:  Base/Foundation
Severity:  5 - Average
Item Group:  Bug
Resolution:  None
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Status:  Open


Summary:  configure check for __objc_msg_forward (checking "for forwarding 
callback in runtime") should be rewritten

Original Submission:  checking "for forwarding callback in runtime" currently 
checks if "__objc_msg_forward" is present in the preprocessed file from gcc (by 
invoking gcc with -E):

starting at line 13843:

have_forward_hook=yes
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking "for forwarding callback in runtime"" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking "for forwarding callback in runtime"... $ECHO_C" >&6
cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* confdefs.h.  */
_ACEOF
cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* end confdefs.h.  */
#include <objc/objc-api.h>

_ACEOF
if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
  $EGREP "__objc_msg_forward" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
else
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; have_forward_hook=no
fi
rm -f conftest*

in line 13856 there is a grep for  "__objc_msg_forward". If that is present it 
is assumed that forwarding callback in runtime is working. 

there are some problems with that way of doing this. 

At first, as andrew pinski pointed out it is in no way guarantied that 
forwarding callback works if grep find a occurrence of "__objc_msg_forward". 
there could also be a variable named that way in the code.

Second and more important is that -E and -fgnu-runtime don't work together in 
the upcoming version 4.0 of gcc (and this is hard to fix according to pinskia 
at gcc dot gnu dot org):

cc1: warning: command line option "-fgnu-runtime" is valid for ObjC/ObjC++ but 
not for C

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18772

because of that pinskia also proposed a better (and more robust) check for that 
feature:

try to compile:

#include <objc/objc-api.h>
...
IMP (*__objc_msg_forward1)(SEL) = __objc_msg_forward;
...

for questions please mail to 
lars dot sonchocky-helldorf at hamburg dot de 
and/or
pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org

regards, Lars











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