Re: libffi 3.0.9 release candidate 1

[Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@humppa.nl>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:23:29PM -0400, Anthony Green wrote:
> Anthony Green wrote:
> >Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote:
> >>On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:53PM +0200, Jasper Lievisse
> >>Adriaanse wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:57:30AM -0400, Anthony Green wrote:
> >>>>Here's 3.0.9rc1:
> >>>>ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.9rc1.tar.gz
> >>>>
> >>>>I built this out of my new git repository here:
> >>>>http://github.com/atgreen/libffi
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm using stgit, which is like quilt for git.  I rebased the git
> >>>>repository to gcc HEAD, then added the "stand-alone" patches (mostly
> >>>>configury changes), the AVR port, the Snow Leopard memory protection
> >>>>fix, and the 64-bit AIX fix.
> >>>>
> >>>>I believe we're missing ChangeLog entries from Jens, Abdulaziz, and
> >>>>Bradley.  Please send them.  I'll push your changes into GCC once
> >>>>they're clean.
> >>>>
> >>>>Abdulaziz - please also check that I applied your patch correctly.
> >>>>The source files had changed somewhat since you submitted it.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'll set up a wiki page to track platform testing soon, but initial
> >>>>test results and pointers to missing patches would be helpful.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>>AG
> >>>As of this RC, there's an increase of about 340 in failed tests on
> >>>OpenBSD. I've attached the log. The unwindtest.cc failure is expected,
> >>>ther others not. Anyone has a clue what's going on here?
> >
> >All the closure tests are failing.  Do you have time to help debug this?
> >
> 
> 
> I should mention that they work fine on x86_64 linux, so this either
> has to do with x86_64 openbsd bits in the source or perhaps your
> compiler version.  Which version of GCC are you using?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> AG
I'm using "gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (propolice)" (default on OpenBSD. I can try
again with gcc 4.2.4 after i built it.

Note, the closure regress tests also fail on OpenBSD/i386 (gcc 3)
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