libffi bug?
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Fri Jun 18 20:17:00 GMT 2004
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Heller <theller@python.net> writes:
Thomas> I'm looking at this small program from libffi's testsuite,
Thomas> return_sc.c:
Thomas> [ ... ]
Thomas> This runs fine on a sparc solaris 9 system, but crashes with a
Thomas> bus error
Thomas> when I replace the
Thomas> ffi_arg rint;
Thomas> line with this one
Thomas> signed char rint;
Thomas> Hm, I thought libffi would handle this - is it a bug?
I don't think so. According to libffi/README, the return value "must
[...] be at least word aligned".
Tom
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