Re: your last change (ffi.tst, ffi::foreign-size)

[Hoehle, Joerg-C. <Joe...@t-...>]

Sam wrote:
>1. why did you remove FOREIGN-SIZE?
Neither documented, nor referenced, nor needed.

(sizeof foreign-variable)
macroexpands to (sizeof (typeof foreign-variable))

One could argue that this conversion is stupid, given that the fv_size slot is cached.

So another approach could be to reinstall foreign-size, and change sizeof to expand to it. That would save a call to foreign_layout(). Yet this would not help bitsizeof.

But sizeof is documented to return two values, while foreign-size does not (and cannot without calling foreign_layout itself). So this macroexpansion change would not be equivalent.

>2. we have a special tests/ChangeLog for that.
Sorry, missed that. Changed.

	Jorg.