From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T05:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7	and 1.9

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:54:35AM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Charlie, but I have already my own library which does more than Ruby-FFI
(typelib.sf.net and typelib.sf.net/html/ruby) so I'll probably be using libffi
directly.

Sylvain