porting

[Chuck Robey]

I'm doing all this work, my oh-so-interesting project is to get GNUstep 
wprking on the Zaurus.  It's moving forward, slowly, but I need to hear 
some discussion about an important porting point: libffi versus libffcall.

Neither work out of the box on the Zaurus.  The notes included with 
libffi shows just what sort of fine guy the writer of libffi is, because 
it's all out there, even test code.  If I can't write that stuff, I 
don't deserve the great challenge.  On the other hand, there's nearly no 
info on libffcall.  I'm not saying it's going to be impossible, but it 
sure as heck is going to be a great deal more difficult to do, so the 
question is: is it really worth it, to go for libffcall, or could libffi 
do the job (once I get it ported)??

Thanks, fellas.  Oh, one last item, I'm still lerning about the pieces 
of gcc, is there any other part of gcc I need to get going?  I notice 
that there's all these little extra directories (like the obvious boehm, 
but there's several tjhat aren't so obvious) ... I'm wondering jost how 
many of these I also need to port.

I think, btw, I will be using version 3.3.5 because OpenBSD uses the 
Propolice version, and that's only available on 3.3.5.  It does sound 
like a good feature to have.