PR2076

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Wed Apr 25 14:17:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:00:11PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> It's probably because of STRICT_ARGUMENT_NAMING.

Indeed it is.

> This is a compatibility hack that causes the last argument to a
> varargs function to be treated as unnamed, because that's how GCC
> used to do it and some backends rely on it (it could change the ABI).

Ug.  It does indeed change the abi.  What a crock.  Well, any
idea how xlc treats this situation?  I suspect they don't load
do this sort of thing, at which point we can make this change
as a compatability bug fix.


r~



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