[VM][UNIX][CVS] Latest updates / FFI / ephemerons

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sun Aug 10 15:24:43 UTC 2003


Alexander Lazarevic' wrote:

> Beginning with 3.5 an alternative mechanism is available to dynamically 
> construct callouts to C code at runtime for some platforms [4]. These 
> apicalls should work without libffi using hardware specific code. Although 
> the tests in SqueakFFIPrims all pass sucessfully and the right assembler file 
> and support/test code gets compiled and linked into the vm, the image side 
> tests all fail (FFITester¹, X11). This happend with 3.5-1devel too, so this 
> bug didn't came with the latest updates.

I wonder if due to Ian's changes the cdecl calls broke? Both FFITester 
and X11 examples use cdecl. Perhaps you could try to replace these with 
apicalls?

-- Bert



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