[pypy-dev] bootstrapping issues

[Robin Becker]

In article <y95mtrq9.fsf at python.net>, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes
>The second one I got from Robin Becker, it seems to be a patched version
>of the first one, which includes further updates for Windows (stdcall and
>cdecl calling convention). He got it from somewhere else...
The version I sent to Thomas came from Roger E Critchlow Jr
<rec at elf.org> and was part of his Tcl ffidl package version 0.5.
He was certainly into the foreign function interface thing in a
big way and his package also included source for ffcall-1.6 
http://www.gnu.org/directory/libs/c/ffcall.html and
the platforms reported for that are

Supported CPUs:  (Put the GNU config.guess values here.)
     i386     i486-unknown-linux (gcc),
              i386-unknown-sysv4.0 (gcc, /usr/bin/cc, /usr/ucb/cc),
              i386-pc-solaris2.6 (gcc),
              i486-unknown-sco3.2v4.2 (gcc, cc -Of),
              i486-unknown-os2emx (gcc), i386-pc-cygwin32 (gcc),
              i386-pc-win32 (msvc4, msvc5)
     m68k     m68k-next-nextstep3 (cc), m68k-sun-sunos4.0 (cc),
              m68k-unknown-linux (gcc)
     mips     mips-sgi-irix4.0.5 (gcc, cc -ansi, cc -D__STDC__, cc -cckr),
              mips-sgi-irix5.2 (gcc, cc -ansi, cc -D__STDC__, cc -cckr),
              mips-sgi-irix5.3 (gcc, cc -ansi, cc -D__STDC__, cc -cckr),
              mips-sgi-irix6.2 (cc -32),
              mips-sgi-irix6.4 (cc -32, cc -n32, cc -64)
     sparc    sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1 (gcc, cc), sparc-sun-solaris2.3 (gcc)
              sparc-sun-solaris2.4 (gcc, cc)
     alpha    alpha-dec-osf3.0 (gcc, cc), alpha-dec-osf4.0 (gcc, cc)
     hppa     hppa1.0-hp-hpux8.00 (gcc, cc), hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05 (cc),
              hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.01 (cc), hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20 (cc +DA1.1)
     arm      -- untested
     rs6000   rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 (gcc, c89, xlc), powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 (cc)
     m88k     -- untested
     convex   -- untested

-- 
Robin Becker