Re: [Gnucap-devel] Modified version of l_dispatcher.h -- please try it.

[David Fang]

> > It works for the cases I tried ..  I was able to move globals.o to either
> > end of the link list and it works both places.
>
> This is good.  I still haven't wrapped your small test case up in an
> autoconf test.  One thing I quickly realized is that of course that will
> not work correctly for a cross-compile environment.  In that case you'd
> have to fall back to some hard coded lookup table that used known
> results for whatever tools chains it knew about and took a guess when
> encountering an unknown toolchain.

Dan,
        I'd say the link/load-ordering problem is no longer an issue, so
configure-testing for ordering shouldn't be necessary.  (But it never hurt
to do as an exercise.)

> Last I checked the autoconf setup did work correctly for cross compiling
> with the one catch that you have to do a native build and install first
> to have access to modelgen.  But once you have that, cross compiling
> seemed to "just work".  But this may not really matter for most (all?)
> gnucap users.

        Either built or installed, some native modelgen would be required,
just up to you how to handle it.  I'm not intending to cross-compile
anytime soon!

David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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