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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: libffi-discuss <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: documentation patch, oddities, and proposals
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <563A14FE.4030004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3k526ei.fsf@tromey.com>

On 11/04/2015 03:20 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>> I wasn't sure -- is this needed in some way for the closure API as
>>> well?  If so, and someone can explain where (that is, arguments,
>>> return values, or both), I will write a documentation patch.
>
> rth> As far as I can tell it's just historical, and now for api
> rth> compatability with earlier libffi.  But perhaps Anthony remembers
> rth> more.
>
> I also didn't check to see how the "struct { char x; }" case is
> handled.  Does that need ffi_arg?

No, it should not.  Just the integral types.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-04 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-04  5:32 Tom Tromey
2015-11-04  5:35 ` Andrew Pinski
2015-11-04  7:31 ` Richard Henderson
2015-11-04 14:20   ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-04 14:24     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2015-11-07 19:01   ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-09  7:39     ` Richard Henderson
2015-11-10 23:36   ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-16  4:27     ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-17  9:09       ` Richard Henderson

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