[ruby-core:45756] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6592] test_call_double(DL::TestDL) fails on ARM HardFP

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:41:10PM +0900, vo.x (Vit Ondruch) wrote:
> 
> Issue #6592 has been updated by vo.x (Vit Ondruch).
> 
> 
> >  I think we need to delete the CFunc code.  The problem with that class
> >  is we cannot tell the return type, so it's impossible to set up a fiddle
> >  wrapper without using DL::CFunc in conjunction with DL::Function.
> >  
> >  I'll port these tests to Fiddle in preparation for rm'ing the dl
> >  implementation.
> 
> In other words, DL will be removed in 2.0, but this leaves 1.9.3 on ARM with broken functionality? It would be nice to document it somewhere at least, if this is the case. Thank you.

Not so much broken, as replaced with Fiddle.  I don't think the CFunc
object is intended to be used directly (I couldn't find any usage in the
wild).  But yes, if you're using CFunc directly, it will break. :(


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