PR 10656 and PR 10657

[Jeff Sturm]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:30, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > On 6 May 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > > These PRs represent serious problems with the Java front end --
> problems
> > > that prevent building GCC if Java is enabled.  Both problems occur on
> > > Solaris machines.
> >
> > I have a patch for PR 10656, but cannot test it myself on Solaris 7.  I
> > may have some help.  Is tomorrow too late for 3.3?
>
> I tested the part of the patch concerning v8.S by deleting the line
> containing .register: The bootstrap succeeds, but ffitest fails:
> When linked against the dynamic library, ffitest fails immediately with
> bus error, linked against the static libffi.a, the following output can be
> seen:
...
> sh: bus error  ffitest

I get the same.  The failing test here was written since SPARC closures
were added to libffi.

Regardless, bootstrapping without failure is an improvement.  Thanks
for testing.

Jeff