rs6000 PPC32 SVR4 ABI long double function return bug

Jason R Thorpe thorpej@wasabisystems.com
Thu Dec 5 19:20:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:11:25PM -0500, Jim Wilson wrote:

 > I am assuming that ports that are currently compatible with the SVR4
 > stucture return conventions want the incompatible ABI change to remain
 > compatible with the standard.  This includes freebsd and netbsd.

I'm pretty sure that's what I'd prefer for NetBSD, yes.

 > I don't have copies of any PPC psABI draft, so I can't tell if this changed
 > between the draft and the final edition.  I am assuming that we just forgot
 > to implement this part of the long double support when we added 128-bit long
 > double support.

When did 128-bit long double support get added to the rs6000 target?
NetBSD currently assumes 64-bit long double on PowerPC (which is what 2.95.3
used).  Does the change only affect 128-but long double, or the 64-bit
long double as well?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>



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