[swift-corelibs-dev] libdispatch module on Linux

[Daniel Eggert]

On 19 Jan 2016, at 20:22, Max Howell <max.howell at apple.com> wrote:
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>> How would I go about passing ‘-fblocks’ when building a module using ‘swift build’?
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> Since last week you can now: `swift build -Xcc -fblocks` and the build process will add those flags.
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>> Should I file a bug to track this?
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> There’s already a few open tickets for this topic. We’re planning a more thorough solution, the above it to allow workarounds.

Thanks.

I added a comment to https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-397 -- I think just having the _f variants working is totally fine. The block variants are nothing but a wrapper around them that can easily be re-created in Swift.

That approach would allow for a a different blocks ABI on Linux.

/Daniel