From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28346 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2002 16:26:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 28214 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 16:26:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gash2.peakpeak.com) (207.174.178.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2002 16:26:46 -0000 Received: from fleche.redhat.com (ta0207.peakpeak.com [204.144.244.207]) by gash2.peakpeak.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17554; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:25:51 -0600 Received: by fleche.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97C714F832D; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:31:01 -0600 (MDT) To: "Boehm, Hans" Cc: "'Jeff Sturm'" , Kresten Krab Thorup , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, "MOSBERGER, DAVID (HP-PaloAlto,unix3)" Subject: Re: libffi: closures for sparc References: <75A9FEBA25015040A761C1F74975667D4009CB@hplex4.hpl.hp.com> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: .. this must be what it's like to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!! Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <75A9FEBA25015040A761C1F74975667D4009CB@hplex4.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: <87znwhulyy.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01423.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans writes: Hans> Given a choice, I'd rather have libffi know about Java stacks Hans> then having libgcj know about parameter passing. Sounds good to me. As far as I know only libgcj uses the raw and closure APIs (you mentioned Mozilla; does it use this?). So we should feel free to change them to suit us. Hans> But I'd like to run this past Anthony before investing more Hans> time. I'd be undoing some other peoples earlier design Hans> decisions (which I suspect were really nondecisions). Well, they were based on information available at the time (i.e., little). We've learned stuff since then. So no harm done. Tom