Does gcc violate the ia64 ABI?

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon May 19 06:18:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:01:39PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> If the ABI can't support tail calls, then I'd say the ABI is broken,
> and should be replaced, not GCC.

Only tail calls to provably local functions, apparently.
I think that's pretty stupid, considering how cheap it is
to reload the gp...


r~



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