Bad code for ia64 with function pointer
Neil Booth
neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Fri Aug 9 14:11:00 GMT 2002
Jim Wilson wrote:-
> On IA-64, and some other targets, function pointers are represented
> differently than pointers to objects. On IA-64, a function pointer is a double
> word descriptor that holds the function address and the function GP value.
> Thus you can't get a valid function pointer by casting a char * pointer to a
> function pointer type.
Hi Jim,
What is GP? I see it written everywhere, but only as "GP".
Neil.
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