AIX (Was: libffi 3.0.10 release candidate 2 available for testing)

[Anthony Green]

tom honermann <tom.honermann@oracle.com> writes:

> Below is a patch to correct a compilation failure on AIX PowerPC.  The
> AIX assembler
> requires external functions to be declared and requires a nop
> instruction to follow
> branch instructions to external functions so that the linker can
> insert TOC reload
> instructions.

Thanks Tom.  I've pushed these changes into the git tree.

I recently applied patches from Uli Link to get libffi to build with xlc
on AIX, but he didn't have any patches to the .S files.

Uli, were you not using IBM's linker on your system?

AG