Thanks for all the discussion. Very useful. A few new folks got involved, so I'll re-iterate that the environment is a circa 2012 Ubuntu LTS with gcc tool chain on an board intended for embedded systems which is difficult to upgrade to new releases and quite brick-able. I may change at some point in the future when that is feasible but for the moment clang is out. I went through hell with some issues of installing clang into some versions of Mint and Ubuntu... there was a serious compiler issue that I spent a month figuring out and built up a matrix of OS's. I got it down to a simple test program that crashed if the system was faulty. Greg can probably tell you about it. He may remember answering questions as the horror story developed.
That's one reason why I'm sticking to gcc until our hardware vendor upgrades to an LTS that is significantly past the period in which the issue sometimes happened. That's just some of the back story... not asking for any advice on the above, that's just what went on when I put in a couple months of engineering time at XCOR Aerospace into trying to get clang running so I could get ARC. It was painful. So its a given that for now, I am constrained to gcc. Also, this is not a new program, so I am trying to develop the least possible change set to fix the storage management issues... it's about 10,000 lines of operationally tested code, some of which pre-dates using GNUstep entirely. It makes life interesting and adds lots of constraints. So again, thank you for the discussion. It has a lot of ideas percolating in my head as I face the new day of coding. :-) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data | | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port | | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
