Re: can libffi be used instead of ffcall?

[Robert E. Hartley]

Thanks for the info.

Helge Hess wrote:

> Notably ffcall is used for two things: a) call stack construction and b)
> call stack deconstruction. I think libffi works quite well for a) but
> last time I checked b) was only supported on ix86.

I will test it out on my ARM systems.  I only just came across it recently in
the gcc v3 sources, so I am hoping it will either work or provide fodder for
new ideas to get the ffcall working.

-rh

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