Re: ffi library port to Windows

Hi Etienne,

for the sake of completeness, I was trying all tests included here:

    ~/sablevm/trunk/src/libffi/testsuite/libffi.call

I will now focus my attention on the types you listed.

Enrico

>Hi Enrico,
>
>Why are you trying to pass structs around?  SableVM doesn't need this
>functionality.  All SableVM needs is to be able to pass around JNI
>types, namely:
>
>  jboolean
>  jbyte
>  jchar
>  jshort
>  jint
>  jlong
>  jfloat
>  jdouble
>  void * (i.e. pointer/reference type)
>
>The preparation happens in _svmf_prepare_native_method_args() in
>src/libsablevm/native.c.  In other words, only the following ffi types
>are needed:
>
>ffi_type_uint8    (jboolean)
>ffi_type_sint8    (jbyte)
>ffi_type_uint16   (jchar)
>ffi_type_sint16   (jshort)
>ffi_type_sint32   (jint)
>ffi_type_sint64   (jlong)
>ffi_type_float32  (jfloat)
>ffi_type_float64  (jdouble)
>ffi_type_pointer  (void *)
>
>That's all we need.  So, we don't care if the rest doesn't work.  :-)
>
>Etienne
>
>
>Enrico Migliore wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm facing problems when I run the tests that involves structures as
>>formal parameters, as shown here:
>>...
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