powerpc64 builtin_va_arg and variable size structures

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Tue Apr 1 02:20:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> Alan Modra writes:

Alan> I can't see anything in the
Alan> PPC64 ABI that mandates special treatment for variable size
Alan> structures.  Can someone say why function_arg behaves this way?

	GCC parameter passing requires passing variable sized structures
by reference.  It cannot handle passing by value.  See the HP/PA port and
the discussion from last Fall.

David



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