FW: libffi on HP-UX

Wed Feb 16 05:23:00 GMT 2005

On Tue, 2005年02月15日 at 14:37 -0800, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> My impression is that most of the client code presumes that char,
> short, and int are returned as int, and everything else is returned
> using the actual data size. Effectively, the C "integral promotions"
> are applied to the return type. Is that the intended convention?

Yes, that's right, although in hindsight it was probably a mistake.
> If that's unclear, can we make it the intended convention?

If that's what will work best for HP-UX and doesn't require changes for
other ports then I'm ok with that.
AG