your patch broke darwin libffi

Bryce McKinlay bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz
Fri Jan 18 16:47:00 GMT 2002


David Edelsohn wrote:

>	The following patch should get rid of the Darwin link error.
>ffi_call_DARWIN is not defined for AIX either, and it does not complain.
>Given the delicacy of AIX in this area, I did not expect Darwin to have a
>problem with the missing symbol if AIX was satisfied.
>
>	* src/powerpc/darwin.S (_ffi_call_AIX): New.
>
>! /* Provide a null definition of _ffi_call_AIX.  */
>! .text
>! 	.align 2
>! .globl _ffi_call_AIX
>! .text
>! 	.align 2
>! _ffi_call_AIX:
>! 	blr
>! //END(_ffi_call_AIX)
>  
>

Wouldn't it be better to give this function the same name in both aix.S 
and darwin.S, since only one of them gets built?

regards

Bryce.




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