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Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 01:06:00 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Anthony Green <green@...ndazzle.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: trace_mark ugliness

Peter Zijlstra <peterz <at> 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


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