From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: s390x ffi_closure_helper_SYSV
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4craj56.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151217153018.CDD291513@oc7340732750.ibm.com> (Ulrich Weigand's message of "Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:30:18 +0100 (CET)")
>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand <uweigand-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
Ulrich> While this is not explicitly mentioned in the closure docs, the
Ulrich> code makes the assumption that this is handled likewise for closure
Ulrich> return values. This is also explicitly checked for in the libffi
Ulrich> test suite, e.g. testsuite/libffi.call/cls_sshort.c
Actually the closure docs are actively wrong right now.
I didn't realize this same widening behavior applied to closures (in
fact I thought I asked about this and got the answer I documented, but I
can't find the email, so it was probably just my error).
I sent a github PR to correct the closure documentation.
Tom
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-18 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-17 15:05 Richard Plangger
2015-12-17 15:30 ` Ulrich Weigand
2015-12-17 19:32 ` Richard Plangger
2015-12-21 18:47 ` Ulrich Weigand
2015-12-22 17:03 ` Richard Plangger
2016-01-04 16:54 ` Richard Plangger
2015-12-18 15:09 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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