ABI and complex integral types

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
Sat Jun 21 14:40:00 GMT 2003


> I don't know the answer, but I think we should pass them in registers
> (two consecutive such if possible).

Definitely. The SPARC 64-bit ABI requires the structures up to 16 bytes in 
size to be passed in consecutive registers so, by using the structure-like 
convention for complex integral types, we'll fulfil that requirement for any 
underlying integral type from 'char' to 'long long'.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



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