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Re: [PATCH] Fix Cygwin bootstrap, PR40807 and all significant FAILs on win32.


On 07/22/2009 09:42 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>     Hi all,
> 
>   While I was looking at the dlmmap/dlmunmap code in closures.c, I started
> looking into testsuite FAILs to see if any of them might be caused by the code
> I had added, and stumbled across a bigger can of worms.  The code in win32.S
> doesn't take account of numerous among the FFI_TYPE_xxx return types, leading
> to stack-based garbage being returned, and in one place mishandles the ABI
> convention that the callee should pop the hidden pointer arg for struct return
> types.
> 
>   Before this patch there were 66 FAILs on libffi HEAD (sourcware) and 20 on
> libffi GCC.  After, there are only one or two remaining (depending on GCC
> version), both "test for excess errors" failures related to format-string
> warnings and unrelated to all this.  Tested on i686-pc-cygwin; the GCC testing
> only involved bubblestrapping an existing $objdir rather than running a full
> bootstrap, but that should be OK for a target lib.

Did you run the gcj testsuite?  If so, what were the results?

Andrew.


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