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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