Re: Live GNUstep Android game ( Golf Blitz )

[Frederik Seiffert]

We ran into a rather 'fun to find' arm64 ivar offset bug with the 1.9 runtime and the latest ndk/clang. 

Sounds nasty. I assume you are talking about this fix in clang? I wonder if Google is open to cherry-picking commits like this – do you think it’s worth a try to ask them about it?

I don't think google does anything custom with clang in the NDK, so I'm pretty sure we can use whatever clang we want (not necessarily what comes bundled in their NDK).

It looks like Google also offers prebuilds of newer clang releases that should include the fix above:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/

I haven’t fully figured out how to integrate these in the NDK (some info here) but it might be easier than doing a full build yourself.

Frederik