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Re: rs6000 struct returns
- To: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: rs6000 struct returns
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:58:24 -0500
- cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, "James L. Dein" <jdein at windriver dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Michael Meissner writes:
Michael> Yeah, its been a bug for 5 years ago, and as Geoff mentions, fixing it will
Michael> break linking objects compiled with previous compilers (particularly the dbm_*
Michael> functions under Linux). As I recall, structure returns is the one thing that
Michael> is different on Solaris than System V (of course PowerPC Solaris is long since
Michael> dead).
The PowerPC Solaris and PowerPC SVR4 ABIs are identical. Maybe
this was a late change -- I don't know. Solaris and SVR4 implementations
should not have had different behaviors.
David