Re: Deprecating ffcall

[David Ayers]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2009, 11:27 +0100 schrieb 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.

Could I ask you for a bug report and/or a test case?  It's stuff like
this that we really need in our test suite.

Cheers,
David