Ruby testsuite failures because of pointer mangling on 32-bit ARM?

[Will Newton]

On 7 January 2014 20:43, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi Carlos,

>>> If the frame pointer register is being used as a frame pointer it
>>> can't contain a data pointer. Likewise the stack pointer and lr. As
>>> far as i can tell the only issue is encrypting the frame pointer in
>>> the -fomit-frame-pointer case.
>>>
>>> Did the patch I submitted fix the ruby testsuite issue?
>>
>> I'm still verifying this. Perhaps wait to checkin the patch until I give
>> an all clear?
>
> I've handed a new set of packages to our ruby maintainer for verification.
>
> I'll let you know how it goes.

Any news on this? I have had other reports that it does indeed fix the issue.

Thanks,

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro