Re: [PATCH] Fix FFI return type for closures in the java interpreter

Tom Tromey <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:22:08 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Fortune <[email protected]> writes:

Matthew> I'm not sure this will matter if the only arch is x86 as
Matthew> ffi_arg will be 32-bit anyway there.

Aha, right.  Thanks for looking.

Matthew> There would need to be a
Matthew> 64bit arch using the raw api. I don't really understand what
Matthew> the raw api is, the references to it in the code seemed
Matthew> cryptic.

IIRC it's to exploit the x86 calling convention to make ffi calls a bit
more efficient for libgcj.

Tom