Add a hack so that foreign functions returning float now do work on 64-bit
big endian platforms.
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
index 8163f49..31c5f10 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
@@ -964,7 +964,12 @@
address cannot simply be used as result pointer, instead we must
adjust the pointer value:
*/
- if (rtype->size < sizeof(ffi_arg))
+ /*
+ XXX I should find out and clarify why this is needed at all,
+ especially why adjusting for ffi_type_float must be avoided on
+ 64-bit platforms.
+ */
+ if (rtype->type != FFI_TYPE_FLOAT && rtype->size < sizeof(ffi_arg))
resbuf = (char *)resbuf + sizeof(ffi_arg) - rtype->size;
#endif