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Re: Why so many java failures on Linux/ia64?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hjl at lucon dot orgm, sje at cup dot hp dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:01:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why so many java failures on Linux/ia64?
- References: <200305051741.h45HfRDp029043@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
John David Anglin writes:
> > I got many java failures on Linux/ia64:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2003-05/msg00224.html
> >
> > Is that expected?
>
> The situation is similar to that on hppa-unknown-linux-gnu for
> which Randolph Chung has a very preliminary libffi port:
>
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2003-05/msg00176.html>.
>
> I believe that Steve Ellcey made changes to the ia64 port a few months
> ago to correct various problems in the passing of arguments. This might
> have broken libffi.
I don't understand this. How can a change that does this have been
committed without regression testing?
Andrew.