From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
libffi-discuss <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: documentation patch, oddities, and proposals
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3k526ei.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5639B430.2010807@redhat.com> (Richard Henderson's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:30:56 +0100")
>> 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? And if so how is it unpacked?
rth> Instead, have a function call taking an enumeration for the basic
rth> types, as well as the abi enum. Which means that ppc can have two
rth> separate structures for its longdouble, which means that both can be
rth> read-only.
That's what I was thinking as well.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-04 14:20 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 [this message]
2015-11-04 14:24 ` Richard Henderson
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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