From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753412AbYEaEpW (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 00:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750889AbYEaEpK (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 00:45:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57056 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbYEaEpJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 00:45:09 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Anthony Green Subject: Re: =?utf-8?b?dHJhY2VfbWFyaw==?= ugliness Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 01:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080522171602.GB22806@Krystal> <1211714403.6463.294.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20080527133651.GA9428@Krystal> <1211987977.12349.91.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 74.15.54.82 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra infradead.org> writes: > The sad truth is that gcc is taking out most of the function forwarding > helpers in favour of libffi, and libffi is far from self hosting and > quite horrible to look at - so importing that into the kernel isn't > going to work either :-/ Peter, Either you're using the term "self hosting" in some way I don't understand, or you meant to say that it doesn't build outside of the GCC tree. Actually, it does, if you use the upstream version here: http://sourceware.org/libffi. Anthony Green