[3.3] [powerpc-linux] libjava testsuite failures with --enable-debug

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:47:26PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Configuring with --enable-debug on powerpc-linux shows about 230
> additional failures in the testsuite, all of them of the form:
> 
>     ASSERTION FAILURE: ../../../src/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c line 118
> 
> Looking at libffi/include/ffi_common.h, the assertion triggers, if the
> macro argument is not properly aligned.
> 
> ffi.c line 118:
>  /* Check that everything starts aligned properly.  */
>   FFI_ASSERT(((unsigned)(char *)stack & 0xF) == 0);
> 
> Configuring without --enable-debug results in an empty FFI_ASSERT
> definition.

Thanks for tracking this down, at last!

> There seem to be two bugs:
> 
> - the meaning of --enable-debug is not well defined. For libstdc++
>   an extra debugging library is built, for libffi, only one library
>   with debugging information is built.
> 
> - On powerpc-linux, the assertion triggers for a wrong reason, or
>   it reveals an alignment problem.
> 
> Append are the test-summery of libjava configure with --enable-debug.

FWIW, this is an alignment problem - the stack should be 16-byte
aligned.  Probably the wrong one of the multitude of stack alignment
macros is being used.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer