Re: extend.c:Parrot_call

this would be great -- i'm currently pulling the return values of my
called subs directly out of I5, and it would be nice to have that bit
taken care of for me, especially if calling conventions change somewhere
down the line (but i certainly hope they don't).  :)

-jeff

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

> Parrot_call() runs a Parrot subroutine, but it takes PMC arguments only
> and provides no return value.
>
> If no one hollers, I'll replace this function with a more flexible set
> of functions that are wrappers to the *runops* functions in src/inter_run.c:
>
>    void *        Parrot_call_sub_(interp, sub, signature, ...) [1]
>    Parrot_Int    Parrot_call_sub_ret_int
>    Parrot_Float  Parrot_call_sub_ret_float
>
>    void *        Parrot_call_meth(interp, sub, object, meth, sig, ...)
>    ...
>
> The signature of the current Parrot_call is "vPPP..."
>
> [1] return values covered: void, Parrot_STRING, Parrot_PMC
>
> leo
>
>