generic vectors: how should they work?

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:18:04PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> My answer is "by reference.  When, and if, they will be supported by 
> hardware, there will be an appropriate -mabi= switch that may change 
> this rule."

I would argue that a generic vector should be passed as if it's
a struct containing N elements of the appropriate type.  Which 
is *not* pass-by-reference on many targets.



r~