[committed 4.1] PA libffi backport

[John David Anglin]

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:44:00PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > The Debian project has expressed a desire to have bug fixes relevant
> > to libjava backported to the 4.1 branch.  As Java is non critical, I
> > backported a number of changes to libffi found in the development of
> > the hpux port.  These changes fix unaligned exceptions that sometimes
> > occur in the handling of small structs and doubles.
> 
> What about HP-UX/PA?

Java isn't supported in 4.1 for HP-UX/PA.  While it wouldn't be that
much work to backport the 4.2 changes, I would prefer to leave this
as an incentive to upgrade to 4.2 when it's released.  There's still
ongoing work to complete 64-bit support for libffi and libjava on this
platform.

Dave
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