Re: GNUstep for Darwin

[Stan Shebs]

LHelldorf@kabel.de wrote:
> 
> >Adam Fedor wrote:
> >>
> >> GNUstep is close to being ported. Right now there is an odd bug in
> >> Darwin GCC that causes the compiler to apparently output Altivec
> >> instructions for some GCC __builtin functions even on machines that
> >> don't have Altivec
> >
> >Do I know about this one already?  I thought we'd eliminated all
> >the accidental appearances of AltiVec instructions a while ago.
> >
> >Stan
> Hi Stan,
> I shouted about this bug a while ago (09/24/2001 till 10/02/2001, several
> messages) on darwin-development@lists.apple.com. Aren't you on that list 
> anymore?

OK, I did see that one, just didn't connect it to GNUstep problems.
(I get 600 msgs/day typically, easy to overlook one!)

> Anyway, the radar bug id is 2783924 and there has not been much done on this 
> bug since <GMT12-Oct-2001 20:42:50GMT> as a look at 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/numericIndex.html tells me. It would be 
> great to have this bug fixed soon since it is
> hindering porting GNUstep to Darwin.

Most everybody in the compiler group is now working on 3.x in
preparation for switching over, so there's not a lot of cycles
available for 2.95 bugs.  I'm sorry I don't have any better news
on this one.

Stan