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Re: Patch to eliminate implicit malloc (etc) decls in libsupc++


On May  4, 2002, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

>    From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
>    Date: 04 May 2002 01:29:39 -0300
   
>    Ok.  Please add this to your list of patches for 3.1.1.  As I wrote in
>    private before, this probably affects mn10300-elf, since ints and
>    pointers are returned in different registers.

> Just making sure you caught this, but it definitely affects
> every 64-bit platform as Kaveh mentioned.

> I can't tell if you grok that, just based upon your response.

I do, but if this hadn't been found to be a problem until now, I
thought gcc 3.1 might go out without it.  If Mark would rather have it
in, for the benefit of 64-bit platforms, I'm all for it.  The patch is
extremely low risk.

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