[PATCH] Linux/PPC64 closures

Anthony Green green@redhat.com
Fri Jul 25 17:05:00 GMT 2008


Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> Hi again.
>
> Well, since there were no replies to my previous post, I take it
> that there are no objections to the suggestion that r2 should be
> used as the closure pointer instead of r11 in the Linux/PPC64
> closures, for increased portability?
>   
Thanks for this patch, Marcus.

I makes sense to me.  I'm running it past the original author of 
libffi's ppc64 linux port for comment.

AG



> Hence, I'm attaching a patch to make that change.  With this patch,
> libffi closures work fine with IBM JDK 1.6.0.1.  This patch is against
> libffi-3.0.4, but I expect it to apply cleanly to HEAD as well.
>
>
>   // Marcus
>
>
>   



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