c/3711: ICE in instantiate_virtual_regs_1, at function.c:3880

[Richard Henderson]

The following reply was made to PR c/3711; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org,
   GNUstep Developers <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c/3711: ICE in instantiate_virtual_regs_1, at function.c:3880
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:24:13 -0800

 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:02:54PM +0000, Nicola Pero wrote:
 > Ok - would it make sense then to add a GCC extension allowing to do it ?
 
 No, because ...
 
 > Like telling the compiler - I want to call this method and here I put a
 > variable size struct but I want you to make the call as if it were a fixed
 > size struct of this size.
 
 ... that's what libffi is for.
 
 
 r~