[m-dev.] foreign type syntax

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Oct-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> If you specify the types using C syntax, you are going to have a bit of
> a hard time marshalling them to and from asm (you won't know how to
> generate type specifications in gcc's tree representation without
> parsing the type specifications).

What's wrong with just using `gcc__ptr_type_node' for all such types, and
handling the marshalling needed by generating appropriate C code in the
C wrapper function that we generate for C `pragma foreign_proc' procedures?

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