Subject: bug#10681: GNU Guile 2.0.5 released

From: Hans Aberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:18:48 +0100

On 1 Feb 2012, at 02:49, Mark H Weaver wrote:

>> After doing this, the same failure with the LLVM-GCC compiler:
>>  /usr/bin/cc -> llvm-gcc-4.2
>>  /usr/bin/gcc -> llvm-gcc-4.2
>>  i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1
>> 
>> This is the compiler that one will use on OS X 10.7 if one installs
>> Xcode 4.2.1, and is not setting the compiler explicitly (or overriding
>> by another install).
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
>> 
>> PASS: test-asmobs
>> bad return from expression `(f-sum -1 2000 -30000 40000000000)': expected 39999971999; got 39999972255
>> FAIL: test-ffi
> 
> Are you sure this guile was linked against your newly-built 'libffi'?

Yes, I compiled it with llvm-gcc, and installed it. All new compiles were made out of the source directory.

> Your previously reported results (using GCC 4.7.0 from SVN) seemed to
> suggest a bug in an earlier version of 'libffi' that has since been
> fixed in their development tree.

It suggests that problem is with llvm-gcc (an clang), I think. With gcc-4.7 there is no libffi failure.

Hans