Re: MLton broken FFI on AMD64???

"Wesley W. Terpstra" <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:19:15 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.ml.mlton.devel
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Matthew Fluet <[email protected]>wrote:

> > ... either we need to add another tag to imports like:
> > _import "printf" stdarg : ... ;
> > ... or we should just always set rax for every FFI call on AMD64?
>
> Did you mean a "varargs" attribute?  That is, I would expect "stdargs"
> (or "fixargs"?) to be the silent default.
>

The new varargs in C is called stdarg. A very poor name, I agree.


> It seems that setting rax for every FFI call on AMD64 would be the
> simplest solution.
>

I agree, if only because MLton64 FFI calls are already so slow. ;)

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