[OpenBIOS] [commit] r733 - trunk/openbios-devel/libopenbios

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Tarl Neustaedter wrote:

> My interpretation of the spec is that N-args and N-returns *define* the 
> number of arguments taken and returned. If the called method generates a 
> different number of returns than the caller asked for, the interface 
> must either generate or discard the additional values.

Hi Tarl,

Thanks for the clarification on this. This was the conclusion I reached 
but from a slightly different perspective: i.e. it is the CIF client 
that passes the parameter block into the CIF interface. Hence if the 
client specifies 1 return argument then it is likely that only enough 
memory has been allocated for 1 argument, and so anything else should 
just be ignored to prevent memory buffer overruns.


ATB,

Mark.

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