Why so many java failures on Linux/ia64?

[Andrew Haley]

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.