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Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:53:27PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> > > My inclination is to stick with an "int" in the function prototype,
> > > rather than a "HOST_WIDE_INT", which seems like overkill.  Is this
> > > correct?
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Would you elaborate?  Is this for the benefit of cross-compiling from
> a host with a narrow, say 16 bit, int?

No, that'll never work.  An int that is at least 32 bits is
too deeply embedded in gcc.  Rather, it's for the benefit of
cross-compiling to a 64-bit target, and supporting extremely
large stack frames therein.


r~
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