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Re: Regression due to tree loop opt / expand weirdness
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 04 08:40:06 EDT
- Subject: Re: Regression due to tree loop opt / expand weirdness
> I can't imagine except that would break things when you *do*
> want to use "typedef void *ptr32 __attribute__((mode(SI)));".
What do you think would break? I assume you're talking about
s390x, not ia64 (as on ia64 there wouldn't be any difference).
On ia64/VMS, the default pointer size is 64 bits. But you have to
pass 32-bit addresses to some system calls. Hence the need to support
the above typedef.