Subject: Re: [bug#44778] [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:31:37 +0100

Hi,

dftxbs3e <[email-masked]> skribis:

> From e195e9e9fe0409dd4b76cac87244cb2b5d7636e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Doe <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:06:07 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on
>  powerpc64le.
>
> Patch fetched from https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/561.patch

Bonus points for a ChangeLog-style commit message.  :-)

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html

The patch LGTM, but I vaguely remember seeing similar patches by Efraim
in a branch (?), or was it for 32-bit PowerPC?

If there’s no collision with other patches in this area, we can happily
apply it.

Ludo’.