Request for assistance closing some old pull requests

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Mar 20 00:55:27 UTC 2018


On 2018-3-20 05:14 , Leonardo Brondani Schenkel wrote:
> On 2018-03-19 18:17, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> There's no good way to shim the ABI without having something
>>> physically deal with this problem, which likely requires a lot of
>>> work on very low level hacking.
>>
>> When last I read about this, the Wine devs were asking for compiler
>> support in clang to accomplish this feat.
>>
>> I bet they will get it. Wine is very popular.
> 
> I believe CodeWeaver's CrossOver Mac does allow you creating 64-bit Wine
> "bottles", as they call them. Is anybody here familiar with CrossOver?
> If they solved that downstream somehow, I wonder how they did it...

I think it's fairly simple: some (many?) apps are not affected by the
problem. (Presumably ones that don't rely on TLS.) Those that are don't
work.

- Josh


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