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Re: altivec fix for starting_frame_offset
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:06:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: altivec fix for starting_frame_offset
>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:
>> If we go down the currently proposed path, I am more and more
>> inclined to make this approach conditional on TARGET_ALTIVEC_ABI as
>> Aldy originally proposed.
Richard> I'm against this. This stuff is already confusing. Adding a
Richard> conditional when both sides are _supposed_ to work out the same
Richard> will only compound the confusion.
I'm not just thinking about the 3.2 trunk, but the 3.1 branch. I
am willing to accept a correct version of this patch for the trunk, but I
think radical surgery to parameter passing and ABI compliance on the
branch is too risky. If the patch only affected Altivec, I would be less
concerned.
David