Why so many java failures on Linux/ia64?

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon May 5 20:33:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:41:27PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Do you remember which patch may cause it?


H.J.



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