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Re: PATCH: libffi vs. SPARC (again)
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, green at redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:01:00 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: libffi vs. SPARC (again)
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> The big problem with this patch is that it then makes the bug
> impossible to fix in libffi unless we conditionalize the patch by
> target, since, I think, "fixing" a libffi port would break it again.
That's just the trouble. "Fixing" libffi would not only break this patch,
but likely other applications that use libffi. That sounds risky to me.
It might be better to leave ffi_call alone and create a new function with
the behavior we need.
Jeff