Re: runtime 2.0 issues.

[Andreas Fink]

> On 6 Mar 2019, at 01:27, David Chisnall <gnustep@theravensnest.org> wrote:
> 
> On 05/03/2019 12:45, Andreas Fink wrote:
> 
>> Making all for tool cvtenc...
>>  Linking tool cvtenc ...
>> ./obj/cvtenc.obj/cvtenc.m.o:(.data..objc_init[.objc_init]+0x18): undefined 
>> reference to `__start___objc_classes'
>> ./obj/cvtenc.obj/cvtenc.m.o:(.data..objc_init[.objc_init]+0x20): undefined 
>> reference to `__stop___objc_classes'
> 
> As I have said before, this is a bug in clang 7.x  It is fixed in the 8.x 
> release branch and the fix is back-ported in the FreeBSD llvm70 package.  If 
> your favourite operating system's LLVM 7 package does not work, please ask 
> them to incorporate this fix:
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/llvm70/files/clang/patch-tools_clang_lib_CodeGen_CGObjCGNU.cpp?revision=489195&view=markup

I actually have  clang7.1 from the source compiled right now and that problem 
is still there.
With clang8, some tests of libobjc2 fail. Clang7 was the only version of clang 
where this didn't happen.
I'll  integrate this patch and retest.

> 
> This bug doesn't affect real code, but it will be a problem for any programs 
> that use Objective-C but don't contain any classes, which unfortunately 
> includes most of the GNUstep base configure scripts.
> 
> I have tested clang 8 on FreeBSD and am able to build all of the GNUstep 
> applications that I've tried (all of the ones in the FreeBSD ports 
> collection) with it without issues.  This version already contains the bug 
> fix.  It does cause a regression in one of the libobjc2 tests, which I'm 
> working on tracking down (it's triggered by a change to how LLVM does ARC 
> optimisation, but that's not actually the cause), but that particular pattern 
> is unlikely to occur in real code.

Ok so testing clang8 from repo will be next...

> 
> David
> 
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