[libdispatch-dev] [PATCH 05/17] more precise detection of blocks

[Bobby Powers]

I probably should have qualified that I'm talking specifically about
blocks support on Linux

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> llvm-gcc/clang has the compiler support for blocks, but still needs
> the separate blocks runtime (provided by compiler-rt), which also
> provides the header files.  This was mostly what people said earlier,
> but I thought it could be stated more clearly for posterity.
>
> yours,
> Bobby
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately testing for HAVE_BLOCKS will be problematic in the
>>> libdispatch public headers as they need to be parsed by client
>>> projects which will not include the libdispatch config.h.  That said,
>>> it should be fine to test for HAVE_BLOCKS in the libdispatch
>>> implementation (which is where the real compiler_rt dependency is
>>> anyway).
>>
>> Right.  I was a bit confused here because no .h files are installed by the
>> Automake Makefile.am.  I removed the patch temporarily from the public
>> repository and will leave this for later.
>>
>> Paolo
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