On Fri Nov 09 23:31:56 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It in no way refers to architecture actually. It refers to the calling > convention on an architecture(dependent upon implementation). The x86 > method is by pushing arguments onto the stack, and the ppc method is in > registers. On amd64, parrot reports ppc, which is essentially correct. > Calling it x86 and ppc is probably just because those are the two > dominant architectures. They could be labeled differently. >
Thanks, Josh, I'd like to work this explanation into the module's POD. Is there some place where this distinction is "officially" explained? (Wikipedia turned up nothing for 'va_ptr'; Google mostly turned up references to this very package.)
