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Re: ABI breakage (Was: libffi 3.1-rc1 needs testing!)
- From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- To: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org, josh at joshtriplett dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:20:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: ABI breakage (Was: libffi 3.1-rc1 needs testing!)
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Am 29.03.2014 15:24, schrieb Anthony Green:
> 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.
it looks like this is fixed in 3.1, but the issue is still open, and I can't see
this fix mentioned in the ChangeLog-3.1, nor the git changes list.
Matthias