MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE vs. __attribute__(mode) vs. ABIs

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:21:36PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     MAX_FIXED_MODE_SIZE should be deprecated.  About the only thing that
>     it should be used for right now is mode assigment for aggregates.
> 
> Was it *ever* used for more than that?

I thought it was abused by libgcc2.[ch].  I see that it isn't
now, but that's the context of this discussion, isn't it?

> But if it's deprecated, what would be used instead for that determination?

I dunno.  Something that isn't tempting to be abused for
anything else.


r~