From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T04:46:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7 and 1.9

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> We (JRuby and Rubinius contributors) designed in the ability to specify 
> calling convention for a given library bound through FFI. Largely this 
> was needed to support Win32's stdcall, but if Linux/PPC has a different 
> convention and libffi supports it, then FFi will too (though we may have 
> to add it to the list of accepted conventions).
> 
> I'll check on the syntax we're supporting and get back to ya.

In the body of the module you're binding:

ffi_convention :stdcall # :default is for normal C convention

We could add whatever convention Linux/PPC needs.

- Charlie