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Re: A change to MUST_PASS_IN_STACK
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:06:40AM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> MUST_PASS_IN_STACK is not a statement of the target to the common
> parts of GCC, it is a(n) (outdated) statement of the common parts of GCC
> to targets. It refers to a very old limitation of GCC version 1 which no
> longer is a limitation, but still is required because it implicitly
> defines the ABI of some targets. Changing the macro probably is not the
> right approach unless we want to re-open this can of worms.
You seem to be saying that changing the default MUST_PASS_IN_STACK
is possibly dangerous. Fair enough. Is there any objection to adding
the extra parameter and providing a different definition on a target
by target basis?
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre