> Eric, sorry to rain on your parade, but you're making the same mistake > I did at first when adding powerpc64le support to libffi. libffi is > built as a shared library. You can't add a field to ffi_cif like this > and uncondionally write to it: An application linked against an older > version of libffi will only allocate the old size ffi_cif. Your new > shared library will trash some random location in the old user app..
OK, I didn't realize that libffi was built as a shared library. That seems a little strange and inconvenient for a glue library. > I worked around this problem on powerpc by defining new enum ffi_abi > values so that you can recognize an old app. I see, thanks for the heads up and the hint! -- Eric Botcazou
