This package contains a test suite for libffi.
This test suite can be compiled with a C compiler. No need for ‘expect’ or some other package that is often not installed.
The test suite consists of 81 C functions, each with a different signature.
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test-call verifies that calling each function directly produces the same results as calling the function indirectly through ‘ffi_call’.
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test-callback verifies that calling each function directly produces the same results as calling a function that is a callback (object build by ‘ffi_prep_closure_loc’) and simulates the original function.
Each direct or indirect invocation should produce one line of output to stdout. A correct output consists of paired lines, such as
void f(void): void f(void): int f(void):->99 int f(void):->99 int f(int):(1)->2 int f(int):(1)->2 int f(2*int):(1,2)->3 int f(2*int):(1,2)->3 …
The Makefile then creates two files:
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failed-call, which consists of the non-paired lines of output of ‘test-call’,
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failed-callback, which consists of the non-paired lines of output of ‘test-callback’.
The test suite passes if both failed-call and failed-callback come out as empty.
How to use the test suite
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Modify the Makefile’s variables prefix = the directory in which libffi was installed CC = the C compiler, often with options such as “-m32” or “-m64”
that enforce a certain ABI,
CFLAGS = optimization options (need to change them only for non-GCC
compilers)
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Run “make”. If it fails already in “test-call”, run also “make check-callback”.
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If this failed, inspect the output files.
How to interpret the results
The failed-call and failed-callback files consist of paired lines: The first line is the result of the direct invocation. The second line is the result of invocation through libffi.
For example, this output
uchar f(uchar,ushort,uint,ulong):(97,2,3,4)->255 uchar f(uchar,ushort,uint,ulong):(97,2,3,4)->0
indicates that the arguments were passed correctly, but the return value came out wrong.
And this output
float f(17*float,3*int,L):(0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5,1.6,1.7,1.8,6,7,8,561,1105,1729,2465,2821,6601)->15319.1 float f(17*float,3*int,L):(0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5,1.6,1.7,1.8,-140443648,10,268042216,-72537980,-140443648,-140443648,-140443648,-140443648,-140443648)->-6.47158e+08
indicates that integer arguments that come after 17 floating-point arguments were not passed correctly.
Credits
The test suite is based on the one of GNU libffcall-2.0. Authors: Bill Triggs, Bruno Haible