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Re: Problem in locate_and_pad_parm
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: Problem in locate_and_pad_parm
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:25:40 -0400
- cc: Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Richard Kenner writes:
Richard> There are no comments near the code in question so I can't even begin
Richard> to understand the issues involved. For example, as I said, why is
Richard> the "in register" test only relevant for one direction of argument growth
Richard> and not the other? That seems very suspicious to me.
Is this related to the expr.h:MUST_PASS_IN_STACK() early
limitation of GCC which we still are carrying around about which way
values are aligned in argument registers? We had a long discussion about
this a few years ago, but some confusion remained and no changes were
implemented.
David