Re: [Sbcl-devel] PPC alien-funcall bug with system-area-pointer and (unsigned 64) arguments

[Brian M. <br...@ma...>]

On May 1, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Josh Elsasser wrote:

> I recently stumbled across an odd problem with ALIEN-FUNCALLs on PPC
> Linux. It appears that if an (unsigned 64) argument follows a
> system-area-pointer then the long long and any following arguments
> will be shifted one word either forward or backwards, depending on the
> alignment of the long long.

> I've also attached a patch to tests/foreign.test.sh that adds a test
> for this. I got lost in a twisty maze of deftransforms trying to track
> down the cause of this, so any help is appreciated.


This has been fixed in 1.0.22.14. Thanks for the report and test case.
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