Geoff, Well removing the portions of my previous patch which weren't being used, the effective change that I had (which eliminated the failures under MacOS X 10.4.8 with the -m64 objc testsuite) was...
diff -uNr gcc-4.2-20061002/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c gcc-4.2-20061002.allocatable_unwind-dw2-fde-darwin/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c --- gcc-4.2-20061002/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c 2006-10-01 23:03:13.000000000 -0400 +++ gcc-4.2-20061002.allocatable_unwind-dw2-fde-darwin/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c 2006-10-02 19:24:03.000000000 -0400 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct mach_header_64; extern char *getsectdatafromheader (struct mach_header*, const char*, const char *, unsigned long *); -extern char *getsectdatafromheader_64 (struct mach_header*, const char*, +extern char *getsectdatafromheader_64 (struct mach_header_64*, const char*, const char *, unsigned long *); /* This is referenced from KEYMGR_GCC3_DW2_OBJ_LIST. */ which eliminates the warning I was seeing before of... /sw/src/fink.build/gcc4-4.1.9999-20060928/darwin_objdir/./gcc/xgcc -B/sw/src/fink.build/gcc4-4.1.9999-20060928/darwin_objdir/./gcc/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4/powerpc-apple-darwin8/bin/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4/powerpc-apple-darwin8/lib/ -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4/powerpc-apple-darwin8/include -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4/powerpc-apple-darwin8/sys-include -O2 -O2 -g -O2 -DIN_ GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -Wa,-force_cpusubtype_ALL -pipe -g -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT - DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -I. -I. -I../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc -I../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc/. -I../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc/../include -I./../intl -I../../gcc-4.2 -20060928/gcc/../libcpp/include -I/sw/include -I../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc/../libdecnumber -I../libdecnumber -m64 -fexceptions -fvisibility=hidden -DHIDE_EXPORTS -c ../../g cc-4.2-20060928/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c -o libgcc/ppc64/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.o ../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c: In function 'examine_objects': ../../gcc-4.2-20060928/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde-darwin.c:167: warning: passing argument 1 of 'getsectdatafromheader_64' from incompatible pointer type I'll do a full bootstrap with that tonight and see if it still reduces my -m64 objc failures. It still would be nice to understand why we need a call to... fde = getsectdatafromheader (image->mh, "__DATA", "__eh_frame", &sz); on 32-bit PPC but not 64-bit PPC. Is this to work around some bug in the system? Jack