Bug#597920: hard-float support

[Loïc Minier <loic.minier@linaro.org>]

Package: libffi
Version: 3.0.9-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

        Hi there

 (I'm not sure whether hard-float support should be filed at wishlist or
 minor priority; Konstantinos, please correct me here!  Also, what's the
 usertag for armhf bugs?)

 libffi doesn't support the ARM EABI hard-float calling conventions;
 this was recently developed by Chung-Lin Tang (Linaro) and sent
 upstream http://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2010/msg00153.html but
 is still pending upstream inclusion.

 Note that this patch is only useful if the __ARM_PCS_VFP define is set
 which was included in upstream GCC at
 http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=162637 and is also
 present in recent Linaro GCC releases.

 The Debian armhf port uses Linaro GCC 4.4, so it would benefit from
 this patch as that would fix libffi with hard-float ABI.

 Would you mind including this patch in the libffi package until it
 makes it upstream?

    Thanks,
-- 
Loïc Minier