[BUG] libffi needs to be rebuilt for i386

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 09:57:00 GMT 2014



On 10/13/2014 11:39 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>   Hello!
>   I have found another problem, this time in libffi. Something appears to be
> wrong with the binary, and on my system it failed to execute its DllMain. As
> a result, it did not register its .eh_frame contents, and upon module unload
> i got abort() in __deregister_frame_info_bases()
>   I started to research it, but cygffi-6.dll contains no symbols. So, in

FYI
debug symbols are in libffi-debuginfo package

> order to get a version with symbols, i rebuilt it from the source using up
> to date gcc. The problem magically went away with the rebuilt binary.
> Perhaps it was some obscure gcc/ld bug.
>   Is it possible for the maintainer to update the binary ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin

Regards
Marco



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