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Re: [patch] Resubmission in an attempt to get someones attention


Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com> writes:

> I suppose I could write a simple structure passing / returning test that
> at least makes sure GCC still works in general and that nothing broke,
> but it wouldn't be testing that this change had the intended affect.  Do
> you think that would be useful?

Certainly :-)  When working on GCC not implementing the IRIX 6 N32/N64 ABI
structure passing conventions, I found this quite helpful.  I've even
submitted a rough first cut at such an ABI testsuite framework:

	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg00258.html

but this didn't really get reviewed and I didn't have time to work on this
lately.

	Rainer

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