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Re: RFC: variadic closures in x86/x86_64


On 12/05/2013 12:47 AM, Hogan, D. (GE Power & Water) wrote:
> I'm sure it would work.  A similar suggestion is mentioned in the CFFI
> documentation.  It would require a C function for every assumed
> variadic processing convention.  For instance, FMI requires
> #<Type><valueReference># which is not a typical printf/logger
> convention. I didn't go down that path because I thought the manual
> was asking for patches for a different way.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.

Hmm, I'm sorry for pushing back in this way, but I think we'd need to
make the changes to all of our twenty or so back ends.  And of course
no-one wants to do that.

Andrew.


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