gcc for quite some time. Since gcc now does the correct alignment,
libffi needs to follow suit. This ought to be made selectable via
a new abi value, and the #ifdefs removed from ffi.c along with many
other #ifdefs present there and in assembly. I'll do that with a
followup patch sometime.
This is a revised version of
https://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2013/msg00162.html
fpr area and the parameter save area, necessary when the backend
doesn't know if a function argument corresponds to the ellipsis
arguments of a variadic function. This patch adds powerpc support for
variadic functions, and changes the code to only pass fp in the ABI
mandated area. ELFv2 needs this change since the parameter save area
may not exist there.
This also fixes two faulty tests that used a non-variadic function
cast to call a variadic function, and spuriously reasoned that this is
somehow necessary for static functions..
returned values. It would be reasonable and logical to use the actual
return argument type as passed to ffi_prep_cif, but this would mean
changing a large number of tests that use ffi_arg and all backends
that write results to an ffi_arg.
Alan Modra