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 <[email protected]> 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?