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Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at dm dot cobaltmicro dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 98 22:39:47 +0200
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <4986.898489891@hurl.cygnus.com><199806221217.FAA20123@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
[ Welcome to the world of the 32-bit wonders of incongruence ]
David "Sparc" Miller wrote:
> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:31:31 -0600 From: Jeffrey
> A Law <law@cygnus.com>
> * The ABI is still going to mandate that some
> doubles in
> argument lists are going to be mis-aligned.
> We'd have to arrange to copy them from the
> arglist into a suitable stack slot. This
> may be more trouble than its worth.
> And there are still going to be issues with equivalence
> statements.
Sure. But folks doing that should *know* they're invoking
suboptimal behaviour.
OTOH, this way we could teach them ;-)
Cheers,
Toon.
PS: I agree with Jeff (even I don't know all the details - but I
love to have them to get my little brother finish his PhD thesis in
time :-) that the general problem simply is too hard (just consider
an odd number of arguments-passed-by-reference).