PATCH: IA64 floating-point types

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 07:39:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:52:09PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> On other IA64 machines,
> that type should have size 12 and alignment 4, according to the psABI.

Surely not!

> ... but I'd like to understand why we're not following the psABI.

I'm absolutely certain the abi did not say that 5 years ago.

I assume in the meantime some loser pressured someone else to
change it so that it matched x86 structure layout.


r~



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