On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:31:21PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I assume the plan is to get on-the-fly building of NCI stubs working > > "everywhere". Platforms where that works don't need the functions > > generated by build_nativecall.pl, but right now that's only i386; it's > > a JIT-like and pretty difficult piece of code to write, but it should > > eventually work on every platform which supports JIT, at least. > > It looks like, that we can't get each possible permutation of signatures > built statically. This would also boost executable size beyond any > reasonable limits. > > "I'ts a JIT-like" code but its not too difficult to implement and > indpendent of JIT is implemented. It just needs a bit of knowledge of > the architectures ABI (how functions get their params and return these) > and of course how to implement that. I'm really not an assembly code > hacker, but JITted NIC for i386 was implemented really quickly.
I see Dan says in his blog "Yeah, I know, we should use libffi, and we may as a fallback, if we don't just give in and build up the function headers everywhere." I'm not familiar with libffi so this may be a dumb question, but why the apparent reluctance to use it? Tim.
