From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randolph Chung Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 05:09:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] epilogue count exceeds number of nested prologues Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > I'm unable to reproduce this. If I'm understanding you right, the > problem occurred during the configure phase of mozilla (not libffi). that's right > I just rebuilt Mozilla from the current CVS tree with gcc3.1 > pre-release and the current CVS binutils. It built just fine and the > resulting binary seems to work flawlessly. I'm building from Debian sources. It's possible that it's simply out of date (I'm building version 0.9.9). > >From the assembly code you provided, it looks as if conftest.c tried > to call FFI_STATIC_CLOSURE() from within a function, which can't > possibly work. indeed, mozilla's configure.in says: if test "$LIBFFI_FOUND" = "yes"; then AC_MSG_CHECKING("for FFI_STATIC_CLOSURE in libffi") AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include "ffi.h"], [ FFI_STATIC_CLOSURE(foo, bar, baz, quux); ], [ LIBFFI_HAS_STATIC_CLOSURE=yes ]) AC_MSG_RESULT("$result") fi which generates (from config.log): configure:13494: checking for FFI_STATIC_CLOSURE in libffi configure:13503: gcc-3.0 -c -I/home/randolph/debian/mozilla-0.9.9/build-tree/libffi-install/include -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.c 1>&5 {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:40: Error: Epilogue count of 4294967296 exceeds number of nested prologues (0) configure: failed program was: #line 13496 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" #include "ffi.h" int main() { FFI_STATIC_CLOSURE(foo, bar, baz, quux); ; return 0; } randolph