Re: [Pnet-developers] Porting work remaining question

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:25 pm, Gopal V wrote:

> I'm still not sure that the CVM code generation
> is right (obviously). The cvmc_setup for the
> case where INT32 is not native , has a
> CVM_ADJUST(-CVM_WORDS_PER_LONG) , which I find
> very strange. Any comments, Rhys ?.

It's trying to deal with libffi's tendancy to return byte, short, and int 
values in a native-sized word.  Down-conversion is required.  Without libffi, 
the stubs generated in int_table.c should do something similar.  The negative 
adjust shouldn't hurt anything in that particular case.

Cheers,

Rhys.