objc-lang.c portability (Was Re: [PATCH] Step over Objective-C dispatch function)

Adam Fedor
2003-03-26T23:31:29Z

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> I've looked at what the underlying code is trying to do and,
> unfortunatly, the original objc-lang.c botched its portability(1),
> sigh! The file is currently native only so infrun.c can't directly
> refer to objc-lang.c, and hence, will need to go via a dispatch table.
> Going via a dispatch table wouldn't hurt anyway.
>
> (1) I noticed that the parameter extract methods assume host=target.
>

I'm wondering what's not portable with objc-lang.c? With the remaining
patches I have that require this, I was thinking it might be easier to
just fix it now. The alternative appears to be adding a whole bunch of
things to the language_defn structure. I admit I don't really
understand the problem though.