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Re: generic "call-forwarding" closure


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> nf2 wrote:
>
>> my requirement would be a generic closure, which doesn't know about
>> the exact types of the parameters, ?but - on invocation - just calls
>> another function pushing a copy of the parameters stack frame onto the
>> stack again, ?extended with the user_data pointer...
>
> I'm not sure this is possible. ?Some arches pass args in registers and
> in memory depending on what type they are. ?So, in order to know where
> an arg is, you have to know its type.
>
> Andrew.
>

Thanks for the clarification! I didn't know that.

Norbert


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