On Dec 8, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Zhuowei Z via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> I'm currently working on adding support to the Swift compiler to allow it to
> target Android.
Cool. Responding to one specific issue:
> - What's the role of the special linker script, and what's the purpose of the
> conformance tables in shared libraries? I've commented the conformance table
> loading code out on Android; is that why 'print("Hello world")' prints out
> "String(" infinity?
The linker script allows the compiler to be able to enumerate conformance
tables, which are part of reflection information. I’m not an expert in this
area (Joe Groff or John McCall could better respond) but I would completely
believe the are the reason for your print failure. print is defined as taking
an Any, and does a downcast to a protocol, and that is probably failing.
-Chris_______________________________________________
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