From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19980 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2014 14:25:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 19969 invoked by uid 89); 29 Mar 2014 14:25:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-ie0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f173.google.com) (209.85.223.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:25:05 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id rl12so6104822iec.32 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:25:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=lgchZuGEoyMAj5z3zJoMavWDOHJokuVQRY0g8r5dWwg=; b=NXSrHsKjoaz7xT8+dc5n30Q49sxW+dY1rMeTjPOPlB0W5lAugiOq3zCIezYUaJx8Re IoSn+3WpTd4ByRZEGnu0s24UNRwu3D2YDBef10Z9xZXqcIvE7A3KFeNV2AR56WcHNnIv jPm77/v0pXQXE/TkOfhcJJNCV2O47l+YE4cCofMExWJAMKgX4oviP6WyPtK5iCj/p136 DqiDsAHi++REEMgPtz6sy8t4uar6AqMyK8B1NzNpzaq2yX40EKjJwbIKViJMEh209tCp xmPKB8WRmboVrmUTHk0Y9L8ADxuFABrvZd/J++0jU9ZMAJ2XBJ+tMchV32oCKwvv60ft nC/Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnCnqHV4uLPGW1APZb53TxRnyG8ztNq5PhQ1Hzv3poZWPJhX6QtAbptwM6JZNM9tuJgVx0b X-Received: by 10.42.226.8 with SMTP id iu8mr14915084icb.7.1396103103365; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([207.112.112.168]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ie20sm12007339igb.10.2014.03.29.07.25.01 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:25:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Green To: Matthias Klose Cc: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org, josh@joshtriplett.org Subject: ABI breakage (Was: libffi 3.1-rc1 needs testing!) References: <87eh2liiow.fsf@moxielogic.com> <87a9ce3ry7.fsf@moxielogic.com> <5335DDEF.9050300@ubuntu.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5335DDEF.9050300@ubuntu.com> (Matthias Klose's message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:39:11 +0100") Message-ID: <87bnwp13s0.fsf_-_@moxielogic.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 Matthias Klose writes: > Am 25.03.2014 22:10, schrieb Anthony Green: >> I am still hoping to get a release out before April, but I'll need >> plenty of help with the testing... > > the good news is that the testsuite passes on every Debian and Ubuntu > architecture without test failures. The bad news is that it is broken > on x86 (not x86_64). Thanks for your help today on IRC to reproduce this. This is definitely ABI breakage. I've filed a bug here.... https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/issues/113 I won't have much time to think about it this weekend, but hopefully there's a solution that lets us preserve the ABI. AG