complex support on alpha

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Sat Oct 4 18:29:00 GMT 1997


On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 10:58:44PM +0200, Kamil Iskra wrote:
> Richard Henderson says that on Alpha the real and imaginary parts should
> be passed as two completely separate arguments. Is this how it should work
> on any other target?

Most ABI's don't mention compex values at all.  Probably the right
thing to do on systems that don't is to treat the tuple as a struct.

To some extent, that is what gcc looks like it is trying to do.  I
don't know that it gets it right all the time, though.


r~



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