MIPS: o32 ABI problem with structs that require padding

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 10, 2002, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> --On Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:18:19 AM -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz
> <drow@mvista.com> wrote:

>> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:03:42AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>> Hmm...  I wonder if any of the patches I've just installed that fix
>>> MIPS ABI problems should make it to the 3.1 branch.  It's not like
>>> they're fixing regressions, though.  Comments?
>> 
>> I think yes; why wait another release?

> 2. We've got 1 month to go before GCC 3.1 is supposed to be out, and
>    tens of regressions to fix.  *No* non-regression fixing patches,
>    please.

OTOH, if 3.1 is to be an ABI freeze for real, installing a patch that
fixes bugs in the implementation of the MIPS ABIs at this point would
be a win.

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