"Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> writes: > sven falempin wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Aaron Bieber <aa...@bolddaemon.com> wrote: >> > Should have mentioned what the current hurdles are. So far the build >> > dies because of a few lacking items: >> > >> > 1) libunwind (needed for the GC, also I am told this is not a hard >> > requirement) >> >> libunwind depends on a libc extension called Setcontext, which i quote >> wikipedia <is somewhat cumbersome to use effectively>, this libc >> extension is present on NETBSD and FREEBSD but having this entering >> into openBSD libc may take a long time, even bikeshed are taking time >> here. > > setcontext was in posix, then they deleted it. we're unlikely to add very many > obsolete, already deleted functions to libc.
Dmitrij, do you have any info on libunwind? I saw in ICB you had mentioned upstream was making things work with c++03. Sven, maybe #2 is a good place to start for now :D
