Irix support

Tue Jul 8 09:13:00 GMT 2003

Simon writes:
 > Rainer Orth wrote:
 > 
 > >Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
 > >
 > > 
 > >
 > >>>>>>>"Simon" == Simon <gcj@gornall.net> writes:
 > >>>>>>> 
 > >>>>>>>
 > >>Simon> I was wondering what the status of gcj (or gcc) was on Irix 6.5
 > >>Simon> at the moment ?
 > >>
 > >>I don't know, but...
 > >> 
 > >>
 > >
 > >Some of it works, but there are two problems:
 > >
 > >* The long standing gcc structure passing bug on IRIX 6 (n32 and n64 ABIs)
 > > breaks some of libffi.
This doesn't matter for Java -- Java doesn't pass structs by value.
The libffi closure interface is the main hole.
Andrew.