Re: Android (Was: Cross-compiling GNUstep?)

[David Chisnall]

On 30 Dec 2013, at 16:32, Doug Warren <address@hidden> wrote:

> Now would also be a good time to mention imp_implementationWithBlock() 
> requires filesystem access and assumes that you can call getEnv("TMP") to get 
> the write directory.  I think someone here reimplemented it as mmap/mprotect 
> but I haven't had a chance to check on it yet.

On Android, this can probably use anonymous shared memory regions, or if 
Android doesn't use W^X we can just use fallback code that maps the memory in 
the same place for read and execute permission.  Given Android's typical 
attitude to security, option 2 would probably work.

David

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