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ABI breakage (Was: libffi 3.1-rc1 needs testing!)
- From: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org, josh at joshtriplett dot org
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:24:31 -0400
- Subject: ABI breakage (Was: libffi 3.1-rc1 needs testing!)
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Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> 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