[pypy-dev] test__ffi_call_releases_gil test failing in win32

[Antonio Cuni]

On 05/29/2012 12:05 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

> A wild guess: Sleep is a WINAPI function, with a calling convention different than
> the default C convention. Maybe this makes a difference with the ffi module?

I bet that the problem is inside the implementation of CALL_RELEASE_GIL in the
x86 backend. It used to fail on windows for exactly this reason (wrong calling
convention), but IIRC Armin fixed it during the last gothenburg sprint,
although I can't find the relevant checkin.

Armin, do you remember?

ciao,
Anto