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RE: libffi win32 structure passing
- To: "'Jon Beniston'" <jon at beniston dot com>, "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: libffi win32 structure passing
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:40:05 -0800
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- Reply-To: "green at cygnus dot com" <green at cygnus dot com>
On Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:39 PM, Jon Beniston [SMTP:jon@beniston.com]
wrote:
> I'm trying to compile libffi (2.00-beta) for Win32 (CygWin environment), in
> order to use it with libgcj (gij). After a few minor modifications, it
> builds and the test program runs successfully apart from the structure
> passing tests. These report they've found GCC's structure passing bug. Could
> anyone enlighten me further on this bug, so I could possibly fix it or find
> a work around. I've been told that libgcj doesn't use this anyway. Any
> further info there? Also, would you like me to submit a patch file?
Cool. libgcj doesn't pass structures at all, so gij won't suffer from this
failure. Which structure passing bug did it report? A function name, or line
nunber in fftitest.c might be useful. Yes, please submit a patch file.
Thanks!
AG