Why so many java failures on Linux/ia64?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 04:40:47PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> These are the patches that I was thinking of:
> 
> 2002-12-09  Steve Ellcey  <sje@cup.hp.com>
> 
>         * config/ia64/hpux.h (TARGET_STRUCT_ARG_REG_LITTLE_ENDIAN): Remove
> 	definition
> 	(MEMBER_TYPE_FORCES_BLK): Move.
> 	* config/ia64/ia64.c (ia64_function_arg): Use PARALLEL to pass
> 	aggregate arguments.
> 	(ia64_function_value): Use PARALLEL to return aggregate values.
> 
> 2002-12-09  Steve Ellcey  <sje@cup.hp.com>
> 
> 	* doc/tm.texi (FUNCTION_ARG_REG_LITTLE_ENDIAN): Remove definition.
> 	* defaults.h (FUNCTION_ARG_REG_LITTLE_ENDIAN): Remove definition.
> 	* calls.c (store_unaligned_arguments_into_pseudos) Remove
> 	FUNCTION_ARG_REG_LITTLE_ENDIAN.
> 	* stmt.c (expand_return): Ditto.
> 	* expr.c (move_block_from_reg): Ditto.
> 	(copy_blkmode_from_reg): Ditto.
> 	* expmed.c (store_bit_field): Ditto.

I took a look at them already. As far as I can tell, they shouldn't
affect Linux/ia64 at all.


H.J.