[Pixman] [PATCH] test/utils.c: Make the stack unaligned only on 32 bit Windows

John Emmas johne53 at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Nov 19 04:09:39 PST 2013


On 18 Nov 2013, at 17:00, Søren Sandmann wrote:

> 
> If that commit is making libffi make calls with a 16-byte aligned stack
> pointer, that's a good change since GCC compiled functions seems to be
> expecting that in many cases.
> 
> Whether GCC *should* be expecting that is debatable (and I think the
> answer is definitely "no" on Windows), but there is no harm in libffi
> meeting those expectations, whether reasonable or not.
> 
> 

Thanks Søren.  The best move might be for me to join the mailing list for libffi and just bring it to their attention.  It's up to them what they do about it.

John


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