Re: Gtk2->show_about_dialog() bug

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis gmx de> [2006-11-24 04:10]:
> Despite the amount of effort I put in it seems I can only
> dredge up mailinglist posts, though, not anything solid, like,
> say, some piece of official documentation.

IRC comes through: itâs in section 5.5 of the GCC 3.3 manual, eg.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.6/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html
Reading that, it doesnât fit the purpose at hand.

libffi doesnât seem to have more documentation that the README:
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libffi/README?view=markup
And the README explicitly states that it doesnât support vararg
functions yet.

So no. gtk_show_about_dialog() will have to be reimplemented in
Perl.

Maybe someone can talk to the gtk+ folks about this? They should
consider the âbindabilityâ of things they put in the library,
after allâ the varargs function is just for C hacker convenience
after all; it should be a wrapper that calls a function that uses
a plain olâ data structure, so that C hackers can use whatâs
convenient while infrastructure people can bind whatâs bindable.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>