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Hello all, I have a quick question about something I'm kind of in the |
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dark about. |
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Back story: I'm trying to revitalize GNUstep on Gentoo. Worked on |
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ebuilds/structure for a week or two, submitted something like 16 |
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yesterday. Getting good feedback. |
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One piece of feedback was that Objective-C doesn't play well with pax. |
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I'm not exactly sure what pax is. So, if anyone knows: |
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- What is the nature of the problem between pax and Objective-C? (I'm |
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assuming it's going to have something to do with the library or the |
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runtime, and whatever protection PAX is supposed to offer for |
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stack/heap breakage.) |
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- The problem is between Objective-C support itself and PAX, yes? |
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gnustep-base offers support for libffi which doesn't use mprotect like |
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ffcall, which I understand to be a problem. (I'm uploading the newest |
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libffi that will work with gnustep-base to bugs.gentoo right now as |
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well). I wasn't sure if some were mixing "GNUstep" and "objc" in this |
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context. |
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Any information on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I'd |
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really like GNUstep on Gentoo to be as solid as it can feasibly be. |
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__Armando Di Cianno |
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