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Re: Registerized function parameters and related things.
- From: Fabio Alemagna <falemagn at studenti dot unina dot it>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:45:05 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Registerized function parameters and related things.
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:01:29AM +0100, Fabio Alemagna wrote:
> > Besides, from the libffi's README file:
> >
> > Libffi assumes that you have a pointer to the function you wish to
> > call and that you know the number and types of arguments to pass it,
> > as well as the return type of the function.
> >
> > Now, whilst I can (obviously) meet the 1st requirement, as I explained I
> > cannot meet the other ones!
>
> Then your problem is not solvable in general. There are far
> too many variations in calling convention to do what you want.
Geez, I already explained the solution, and it's the one I want to
implement. I asked where to start from, that's all.
Fabio Alemagna