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Re: Does gcc violate the ia64 ABI?

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, schwab at suse dot de
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 22:38:55 -0700
Subject: Re: Does gcc violate the ia64 ABI?
References: <20030517202234.A28227@lucon.org> <200305182251.h4IMpsCD017880@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <20030519030139.GA23221@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au>

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:01:39PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> If the ABI can't support tail calls, then I'd say the ABI is broken,
> and should be replaced, not GCC.

Only tail calls to provably local functions, apparently.
I think that's pretty stupid, considering how cheap it is
to reload the gp...

r~

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