avcall

[Marc-Antoine Parent]

I thought again about some of what I said about avcall: I have to take 
back the last claim. Changing the avcall library without relinking 
cannot change anything as Alex's library is static!
But I re-tried to build without avcall, or with various versions of 
avcall, and I stand by my other claims:
Even now, no library but libavcall.la contains ___builtin_avcall in any 
shape or form that can be seen by nm;
Trying to link any swarm executable unless libavcall is available;
building avcall using the CVS-fresh FSF gcc 3.3 creates a corrupt 
avcall that does not pass its own tests;
Linking with an avcall built using the Apple gcc (december) allows 
self-test success but makes crashing swarm executables;
Linking with Alex' avcall (made statically with gcc3.2.1) works.
Now, I wonder about one thing: Could the keyword here be statically? 
No, I just tried compiling libavcall statically (w/o -fPIC) (in gcc 
3.3) and it still fails self-tests. Oh, well...

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