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Re: libffi Darwin support



On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 05:15 , David Edelsohn wrote:

> John> Two questions, then:
> John> What is the proper name of the ABI?
>
> 	The ABI really is called the AIX ABI.  There is a descendant
> called the PowerOpen ABI which changed a few things, but neither AIX nor
> Darwin follow the PowerOpen ABI.

Well, then my vote is for changing Darwin to AIX_ABI where Darwin refers 
to the API and not the OS.

> John> Are you able to test that your changes don't break on Darwin/Mac 
> OS X?
>
> 	I am not changing anything, unless we try to merge the two
> assembly files.  The only thing I might want to change in ffi_darwin.c 
> is
> to use sizeof(long) instead of sizeof(int) for stack offsets.

Sounds good.

/John
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