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Re: Is this a bug in libffi testsuite on solaris2.8?
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: aph at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:51:02 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Is this a bug in libffi testsuite on solaris2.8?
> The trampolines that GCC generates when the address of a nested
> function is taken, are built by the compiler and invisible to the
> programmer.
>
> The trampolines that libffi uses -- presumably for similar purposes --
> are explicitly allocated by the programmer.
Ah fine, thanks for clarifying, I was indeed talking about the case of
taking the address of a nested function. If you don't solve that one,
you are in trouble anyway.