[kaffe] NEED_sysdepCallMethod

[Kiyo Inaba]

While trying to get the latest kaffe for m68k, I become wondering what is the
purpose of 'NEED_sysdepCallMethod' macro defined in several machine dependent
codes. That means, this macro is not needed to compile m68k-linux (CVS head)
and it WAS needed for 1.1.4, but still several other ports have this macro
defined.

To verify my question, I tried to compile CVS head for i386-linux, by deleting
NEED_sysdepCallMethod from 'sysdepCallMethod.h'. The generated kaffe is

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Engine: Just-in-time v3   Version: 1.1.x-cvs   Java Version: 1.1
Configuration/Compilation options:
  Compile date  : Wed Apr 14 10:26:47 JST 2004
  Compile host  : gibson
  Install prefix: /usr/local/kaffe
  Thread system : unix-jthreads
  CC            : gcc
  CFLAGS        : -g -O2 -Wno-import -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wformat=2 -Wimplicit-int -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmultichar -Wparentheses -Wsequence-point -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-variable -Wunused-value -Wuninitialized -W -Wfloat-equal -Wundef -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wsign-compare -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wpacked -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wunreachable-code -Winline -Wlong-long -Wdisabled-optimization
  LDFLAGS       : 
  ChangeLog head: 2004-04-06  Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe.org>
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(oops, it is not CVS head...) and regression test results is 

================================
1 of 144 tests failed
Please report to kaffe at kaffe.org
================================

(fail is for SoTimeout.java)

So, my understanding is the 'ifdef' which surrounded definition for inline
function 'sysdepCallMethod' should not be needed.

Am I right?

BTW, one more question.
For m68k-linux, gcc complains that sysdepCallMethod can not be inlined
because of alloca. When the compilation finished, I will test whether
this kaffe works or not.

Kiyo