Re: libffi - updates needed?
2012-04-16 17:50:07 GMT
Hi David! On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:28:55PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >* Steve McIntyre (steve <at> einval.com) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking through the archive for packages using libffi. There's a >> problem with libffi and variadic functions that has been recently >> fixed - see >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/03/msg00108.html >> >> for more information. So far, we only expect symptoms to show up on >> armhf *but* it might be more widespread. Until recently, libffi didn't >> support variadic functions properly. That's now been fixed in libffi, >> but there's an extra API call necessary in places where variadics are >> used. > >Ah, you've picked up this fun one(Continue reading)Yup, Marcus pointed it out to me and I've started tracking it again.
>As I remember most other archs 'get away with it' often >because they do silly things like pass values in registers and >on the stack and still offset the stack for the ones passed in >registers. I don't know if anyone has got around to doing >other backends other than armhf since I touched it, but >I think we knew there were some of the MIPS varients that could >do with it.
Yup, Marcus pointed it out to me and I've started tracking it again.
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