[Bug ada/48835] Porting GNAT to GNU/Linux/m68k

[tg at mirbsd dot org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48835

--- Comment #12 from Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot org> 2011-06-14 10:59:03 UTC ---
Why not patch the frontend to magically make System.Address a pointer type for
the backend to deal with? That way, no functions have to be changed, and
potential other targets with “weird” calling conventions immediately share in
the benefit.

As for the “compatibility trick”, it works the other way around, only when a
pointer-returning function is called expecting integers. Here, we have an
integer-returning function by mistake.