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Re: [patch preview] New target hooks


On Aug  3, 2003, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:39:14AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> What if I want to look at an attribute of the function, not of its type?

> If you can't get the ABI of a function from its type, then
> taking the address of the function changes its ABI.

Consider calls to libgcc internal functions.  We never take their
addresses, and they sometimes have different ABIs that are detected by
looking at the decl, not at the type.

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