Again: FFI syntax

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-May-2001, Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at informatik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> callconv : <empty>            -- defaulting to 'ccall'
>          | 'ccall'
>          | 'stdcall'
>          | 'cplusplus'
>          | 'jvm'
>          | 'dotnet'

The calling convention should not necessarily default to 'ccall'.
That would not be appropriate for all implementations.

Instead, I think the default calling convention should be
implementation-dependent.

Also, implementations should be allowed to provide calling conventions
not on that list.

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