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Re: ABI compatibility regression: Return values on x86

H.J. Lu writes:
 > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:32:08PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > 
 > > So, what now?  Can we even agree about what the psABI actually says
 > > about sign-extending result values?  Was what we did before correct,
 > > or what we do now?  I don't believe that it doesn't matter.
 > 
 > You can follow up with this thread in ia32 psABI discussion group:
 > 
 > http://groups.google.com/group/ia32-abi/browse_thread/thread/f47e0106b21d9269

Thanks for the reference.  The attitude there looks surprisingly
complacent, but if Intel and gcc x86 maintainers agree that it doesn't
matter I suppose I'll have to defer to the weight of opinion.

Andrew.

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