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Re: patch for MIPS varargs
- To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej at zembu dot com>
- Subject: Re: patch for MIPS varargs
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 23:12:51 -0700
- Cc: dlindsay at cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000509225452.B834@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:54:52PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> This change disturbs me a little, and I think it has the potential to
> break a lot of things for a lot of people.
The thing is, things are already broken for everyone using
the old scheme. It simply cannot work, as it does not have
enough information.
> This would allow
> the configurations for IRIX, Ultrix, Linux, NetBSD, etc. to keep
> compatibility with all of their existing installed base...
Err... Irix, and anyone else using Irix's ABI, is unaffected.
There is a difference between the standard mips unix abi and
the mips eabi.
You should look at the change closer.
r~