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Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:25:43 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Because it's an abstraction for the "widest integer type" and means precisely
> that we don't have to think about the sorts of issues you raise. Note that
> there was one (ill-advised) 64-bit ABI which had long as 32 bits and int
> as 64 bits.
But it isn't the widest type - that's HOST_WIDEST_INT. And the code
generated for a target should be identical for native and cross
compilation, irrespective of what integer types are available on the host.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk