How does one write a configure test to check for this? Only by vendor strings and version numbers?

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Nils Smeds <nils.smeds@gmail.com> wrote:

[ NOTE: The above is likely incorrect in that I believe the declaration should be size_t len_string and the call load_(string, len_string).
The actual arguments are passed by reference but the hidden length arguments are likely passed by value.

(My comment)
]

Yes, this is certainly the case.

What about big-endian architectures using 'size_t' not equal to 'int' and passing enough arguments that the length is not passed in a register?