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Re: __builtin_apply fails on Sparc
- To: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: __builtin_apply fails on Sparc
- From: rth at cygnus dot com (Richard Henderson)
- Date: 17 Aug 1998 13:00:45 -0700
- Newsgroups: cygnus.egcs.bugs
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <199808121903.NAA14562.cygnus.egcs.bugs@wijiji.santafe.edu>
In article <199808121903.NAA14562.cygnus.egcs.bugs@wijiji.santafe.edu>,
Marcus G. Daniels <mgd@santafe.edu> wrote:
>On sparc-sun-solaris2.6, for both gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.0.2, this program
>results in an illegal instruction:
__builtin_apply will not work for any target that does not
pass arguments on the stack. If some example does happen
to function on another machine, it is by accident.
__builtin_apply is conceptually broken beyond repair, and
should be removed.
r~