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Re: [wwwdocs] Document changes in 3.4 for SPARC (rev2)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gp at suse dot de>
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:18:30 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Document changes in 3.4 for SPARC (rev2)
- References: <200402021342.08440.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> As suggested by Gerald, this patch documents the few changes in 3.4
> specific to the SPARC port. They are mostly ABI fixes, so I shamelessly
> borrowed the structure of mips-abi.html to devise the new sparc-abi.html
Great, thanks!
I just have few and very minor comments; please consider them and then
commit an updated patch.
Index: gcc-3.4/changes.html
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+ <li>A small structure is passed or returned in a register; and</li>
+ <li>it contains a unique field of type 'float' .</li>
<code>float</code>?
+ <p><code>x</code> is passed in floating-point register <code>%f0</code>,
+ instead of <code>%f1</code> previously.</p></td>
I'd omit "previously" in this case; and I believe there are one or two
instances later on as well.
+ <li>A small union is passed or returned in a register; and</li>
+ <li>its size in bytes is lesser than 8.</li>
"less"
And I do think this really ought to be an entry in the news section of
our main page. Would you mind suggesting some wording for me to base
that entry on?
Gerald