Re: Deprecating ffcall

[David Chisnall]

On 1 Apr 2009, at 09:05, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> This may sound strange, coming from my side as I already advocated the
> use of libffi when it still supported less platforms than ffcall,  
> but I
> strongly advocate that we phase out support for ffcall very slowly.
>
> Remember that only two years ago somebody suggested that we should  
> drop
> support for libffi :-)

In that case, can someone add support for moving the return value  
address off the stack to GSFFCallInvocation?  At the moment, certain  
uses of GSFFCallInvocation that work on Cocoa cause stack corruption  
on GNUstep, as I mentioned in an earlier email.

David