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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add variadic support
From: David Gilbert <david.gilbert@linaro.org>
To: Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
Cc: Chung-Lin Tang <cltang@linaro.org>, libffi-discuss@sourceware.org, 	Marcus.Shawcroft@arm.com
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On 25 February 2011 19:03, Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> wrote:
> Chung-Lin Tang <cltang@linaro.org> writes:


>> Anthony, as maintainer, do you have any ideas?
>>
>
> I always envisioned it working this way:
>
> =A0- add a new FFI type, say FFI_TYPE_VARIADIC
> =A0- users would just append this to the array of types when they
> =A0 =A0create a cif for a variadic function
>
> No new API is required in this case. =A0Wouldn't this work?

I think my main reason against that was it would require every backend
to be modified
to skip it (and skip a hole in the values array).

Dave