The patch fixes build failure of form:
../src/alpha/osf.S:298:2: error: #error "osf.S out of sync with ffi.h"
Upstream fixed the bug in a more invasive way
but didn't have releases since 3.2.1.
The patch is taken from Gentoo:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-libs/libffi/files/libffi-3.2.1-complex_alpha.patch
--- libffi-3.2.1/src/alpha/osf.S 2015-01-16 10:46:15.000000000 +0100
+++ libffi-3.2.1/src/alpha/osf.S 2015-01-16 10:46:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@
.gprel32 $load_64 # FFI_TYPE_SINT64
.gprel32 $load_none # FFI_TYPE_STRUCT
.gprel32 $load_64 # FFI_TYPE_POINTER
+ .gprel32 $load_none # FFI_TYPE_COMPLEX
/* Assert that the table above is in sync with ffi.h. */
@@ -294,7 +295,8 @@
|| FFI_TYPE_SINT64 != 12 \
|| FFI_TYPE_STRUCT != 13 \
|| FFI_TYPE_POINTER != 14 \
- || FFI_TYPE_LAST != 14
+ || FFI_TYPE_COMPLEX != 15 \
+ || FFI_TYPE_LAST != 15
#error "osf.S out of sync with ffi.h"
#endif
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