armhf testsuite failures possibly due to 7ad0ae7f42

[Kyrill Tkachov]

On 25/10/17 01:20, Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
> Hey, it was a silly bug caused by a level of indirection thing.  I 
> sent a PR (381) on github to address the issue.  It passes the tests 
> locally.
>

Thanks for looking into it!
Kyrill


> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:35 PM Saleem Abdulrasool 
> <compnerd@compnerd.org <mailto:compnerd@compnerd.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:53 AM Kyrill Tkachov
>     <kyrylo.tkachov@foss.arm.com <mailto:kyrylo.tkachov@foss.arm.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         Matthias' testing of libffi [1] (thanks!) shows some recent
>         failures on
>         armhf relating to closures with short types
>         (search for "FAIL:")
>
>         Considering that the results from May look okay I suspect the
>         culprit is
>         commit 7ad0ae7f42f3e208431ab66a9032dc9549f978d0 (arm: zext
>         return value
>         parameters)
>         from Oct 10.
>         Would it be possible to take a look and fix the failures?
>
>
>     Thanks for the notification.
>
>     Yeah, the tests probably need to be adjusted.  The tests look like
>     something which would be impacted by the zext.  It was previously
>     sending whatever was in the register previously.
>
>
>         Thanks,
>         Kyrill
>
>         (Please keep me on CC to any replies as I am not subscribed to
>         this list)
>
>         [1]
>         https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libffi&arch=armhf&ver=3.3~20171020-1&stamp=1508524302&raw=0
>         <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libffi&arch=armhf&ver=3.3%7E20171020-1&stamp=1508524302&raw=0>
>
>         [2]
>         https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libffi&arch=armhf&ver=3.3~20170512-1&stamp=1494644748&raw=0
>         <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libffi&arch=armhf&ver=3.3%7E20170512-1&stamp=1494644748&raw=0>
>
>     -- 
>     Saleem Abdulrasool
>     compnerd (at) compnerd (dot) org
>
> -- 
> Saleem Abdulrasool
> compnerd (at) compnerd (dot) org