[cffi-devel] Next release of CFFI with cffi-libffi

Luís Oliveira luismbo at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 13:37:44 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:
> IMO the change to mem-aref is bad and will break a lot of code. Until
> now the contract of mem-aref was that it received a pointer to an array
> of the referenced type and returned a pointer offset into the array.
> The fact that it now returns a list is a gratuitous change, with no
> utility. If we actually want these semantics(not sure about it), it
> should be mem-aptr to implement them

If it's not too difficult, can you extract a self-contained test case
that has been broken?

Cheers,

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Luís Oliveira
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