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Re: C++ support for decimal floating point

On 09/29/2009 04:23 PM, Janis Johnson wrote: 
The PowerPC 32-bit ELF ABI says that a struct is passed as a pointer
to an object or a copy of the object.  Classes are treated the same
as classes.  Does the C++ ABI have rules about classes like
std::complex that would cause them to be treated differently?

No. Classes that are trivially copyable (such as complex) are passed according to the C ABI, which is suboptimal for many popular architectures.

Jason

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