From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T04:54:35+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:
> 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.

Or, duh, have FFI use the appropriate default convention on the target 
platform. Either way, it should be simple to deal with.

- Charlie