Re: libffi changes for 3.0.11

[Bobby Holley <bobbyholley at gmail dot com>]

This turned out to be not quite right. The final patch that we applied
is attached.

You can also find the changeset here:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/def68a106743

Cheers,
-Bobby Holley, Mozilla Platform Dev

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Bobby Holley <bobbyholley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have another fix you might want to include, which I haven't had time
> to formally submitting for upstream inclusion.
>
> The OS detection within libffi doesn't handle darwin11 (OSX 10.7
> Lion), making it crash mysteriously when doing anything with closures.
>
> The fix is very safe - it just bumps the list of platforms that
> allocate NOEXEC to include everything through darwin19.
>
> The patch is attached to the bug here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682180 - you probably
> only want the one-line configure.ac change.
>
> Cheers,
> -Bobby Holley, Mozilla Platform Dev
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:32 AM, David Gilbert <david.gilbert@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 23 August 2011 17:37, Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com> wrote:
> > > I just released 3.0.10. ?Thanks to everybody who contributed!
> > >
> > > My plan is to release 3.0.11 within a couple of weeks. ?It will contain the
> > > soname bump (since I've removed debug symbols, again), and I also want to
> > > get David Gilbert's variadic function support in there.
> > >
> > > I am not able to personally test every platform that libffi purports to
> > > support, so please test and post your results here:
> > > ?http://moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.11
> >
> > Hi Anthony,
> > ?I've just added the i686 and arm (soft float) - seems OK; a few xpass on arm.
> >
> > It'll be good to get the variadic stuff in!
> >
> > Dave

Attachment: 02-bug-682180.patch
Description: Binary data