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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: "Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water)" <D.Hogan@ge.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	       "libffi-discuss@sourceware.org"
	<libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: variadic closures in x86/x86_64
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A03A61.1090103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F023C084BCC16446BDA5B664305741E8091E76@ALPMBAPA05.e2k.ad.ge.com>

On 12/05/2013 12:47 AM, Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water) wrote:
> I'm sure it would work.  A similar suggestion is mentioned in the CFFI
> documentation.  It would require a C function for every assumed
> variadic processing convention.  For instance, FMI requires
> #<Type><valueReference># which is not a typical printf/logger
> convention. I didn't go down that path because I thought the manual
> was asking for patches for a different way.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.

Hmm, I'm sorry for pushing back in this way, but I think we'd need to
make the changes to all of our twenty or so back ends.  And of course
no-one wants to do that.

Andrew.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25  2:46 Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water)
2013-11-25  9:29 ` Andrew Haley
2013-11-25  9:37   ` Jakub Jelinek
2013-11-25 10:10     ` Andrew Haley
2013-11-26 14:27       ` Alan Modra
2013-12-04  8:03         ` Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water)
2013-12-04 11:05           ` Philip Ashmore
     [not found]             ` <F023C084BCC16446BDA5B664305741E8091E8B@ALPMBAPA05.e2k.ad.ge.com>
2013-12-05 13:03               ` Philip Ashmore
2013-12-04 12:21           ` Andrew Haley
2013-12-04 18:28             ` Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water)
2013-12-04 18:51               ` Andrew Haley
2013-12-05  0:47                 ` Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water)
2013-12-05  8:33                   ` Andrew Haley [this message]

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