Re: Gnustep on alpha linux

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 11:22  pm, Andrew Maier wrote:
>
> > Has anyone got Gnustep running on alpha linux (Debian in my case). I
> > have followed the instructions for compiling Gnustep and have installed
> > gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui and gnustep-back. It all
> > compiles (using gcc-3.2.2), albeit with a lot of warnigs which are  
> > probably
> > due to the 64bit nature of the alpha.
>
>
> I had the basic stuff working a few years ago ... but it's highly  
> likely that some
> 64bit/byte ordering problems have crept in ... to the best of my  
> knowledge
> nobody else has done anything on alpha.

I'm not sure about this, but I ran across the following in NSArray.m:
static int compare(id elem1, id elem2, void* context)
{
 return (int)[elem1 performSelector: (SEL)context withObject: elem2];
}
would this qualifiy as problematic in this case or does the cast resolve 
the issue?

Cheers,
Dave