[Python-Dev] ctypes and powerpc

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, November 24, 2006, at 08:21PM, "Thomas Heller" <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>I'd like to ask for help with an issue which I do not know
>how to solve.
>
>Please see this bug http://python.org/sf/1563807
>"ctypes built with GCC on AIX 5.3 fails with ld ffi error"
>
>Apparently this is a powerpc machine, ctypes builds but cannot be imported
>because of undefined symbols like 'ffi_call', 'ffi_prep_closure'.
>
>These symbols are defined in file
>  Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi_darwin.c.
>The whole contents of this file is enclosed within a
>
>#ifdef __ppc__
>...
>#endif
>
>block.  IIRC, this block has been added by Ronald for the
>Mac universal build.  Now, it seems that on the AIX machine
>the __ppc__ symbols is not defined; removing the #ifdef/#endif
>makes the built successful.

The defines were indeed added for the universal build and I completely overlooked the fact that ffi_darwin.c is also used for AIX. One way to fix this is

#if !  (defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(__ppc__))
...
#endif

That is, compile the file unless __APPLE__ is defined but __ppc__ isn't. This more clearly documents the intent. 




>
>We have asked (in the SF bug tracker) for the symbols that are defined;
>one guy has executed 'gcc -v -c empty.c' and posted the output, as far as I
>see these are the symbols defined in gcc:
>
>-D__GNUC__=2
>-D__GNUC_MINOR__=9 -D_IBMR2 -D_POWER -D_AIX -D_AIX32 -D_AIX41 -D_AIX43
>-D_AIX51 -D_LONG_LONG -D_IBMR2 -D_POWER -D_AIX -D_AIX32 -D_AIX41 -D_AIX43
>-D_AIX51 -D_LONG_LONG -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(aix) -D__CHAR_UNSIGNED__
>-D_ARCH_COM
>
>What should we do now?  Should the conditional be changed to
>
>#if defined(__ppc__) || defined(_POWER)
>
>or should we suggest to add '-D__ppc__' to the CFLAGS env var, or what?
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Thomas
>
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