Hi, I'm looking through the archive for packages using libffi. There's a problem with libffi and variadic functions that has been recently fixed - see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/03/msg00108.html for more information. So far, we only expect symptoms to show up on armhf *but* it might be more widespread. Until recently, libffi didn't support variadic functions properly. That's now been fixed in libffi, but there's an extra API call necessary in places where variadics are used. Looking at gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7, I can see that the embedded copies of libffi are too old for this fix. I don't see a build-dep on libffi-dev, whish suggests that they're using these embedded copies rather than the system version. A couple of questions here: I'm curious why this is? If it's definitely necessary, could we update those embedded copies to a more recent libffi with the change included? Even beyond that, there are quite likely to be changes that would need to be made in the gcc source to use the new ffi_prep_cif_var() function. My scan of the archive shows ffi_prep_cif() shows up / is used in: gcc-4.6 gcc-snapshot gcj-4.[467] at least. Can you help please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
