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libffi support for Solaris Studio on x86 Solaris
- From: Meador Inge <meadori at gmail dot com>
- To: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:54:42 -0500
- Subject: libffi support for Solaris Studio on x86 Solaris
Hi All,
A bug was recently opened against the Python 'ctypes' module [1] which
caused 'ctypes' to segfault when being built with Solaris Studio on
x86 under OpenSolaris. After investigating things more, I see where
support for *building* 'libffi' on Solaris with Solaris Studio was
added [2].
I don't see how runtime support is possible as Solaris Studio does not
support '__attribute__ ((regparm(1)))', which seems to be required by
the 'ffi_closure_SYSV_inner' implementation on 'x86'.
So, is Solaris Studio officially support for 'libffi' on Solaris x86?
The test matrix does not say so [3]. Also, I see where a similar
conclusion seemed to be derived here [4].
-- Meador
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue12927
[2] https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/blob/master/README
[3] http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.11
[4] http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2009/msg00311.html