[bug#44778] [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le.

[dftxbs3e]

On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 23:31 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,

Hello!

> dftxbs3e <dftxbs3e@free.fr> skribis:
> 
> > From e195e9e9fe0409dd4b76cac87244cb2b5d7636e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001
> > From: John Doe <dftxbs3e@free.fr>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:06:07 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128
> > on
> >  powerpc64le.
> > 
> > Patch fetched from https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/561.patch
> 
> Bonus points for a ChangeLog-style commit message.  :-)
>     
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html
> 

Sorry, it's not clear to me yet what that is yet, will read again.

> The patch LGTM, but I vaguely remember seeing similar patches by
> Efraim
> in a branch (?), or was it for 32-bit PowerPC?
> 
> If there’s no collision with other patches in this area, we can
> happily
> apply it.
> 

There's no collision, Efraim's patch is
<https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/532> and mine is
<https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/561>. Efraim's patch is about
POWER7 and earlier.

There's quite a few PRs relating to PowerPC bugs on libffi:
https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pulls?q=is%3Apr+powerpc+is%3Aclosed

> Ludo’.

Thanks a lot for the review! Attached new patch version, I hope it is
better with the commit message now.

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