[MLton-user] FFI, MacOS PPC, and 16-bit ints

[Matthew Fluet]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dave Herman wrote:
> On PPC MacOS, I can't seem to mutate Int16.int refs from C via the FFI. The 
> program below successfully mutates the ordinary int ref to 42, but does not 
> mutate the Int16.int ref.

I've committed a fix for this bug.
   http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi?rev=6267&view=rev
By inspecting the intermediate representation code, I'm pretty sure this 
will behave the right way on big-endian systems, but I don't have access 
to one to check.  I've tweaked the <src>/doc/examples/ffi examples to pass 
a 'char ref' through the FFI, so the Makefile in that directory can be 
used as a regression check.