TARGET_PROMOTE_PROTOTYPES question

[Eric Botcazou]

> I have a question about the TARGET_PROMOTE_PROTOTYPES macro.  This macro
> says that types like short or char should be promoted to ints when
> passed as arguments, even if there is a prototype for the argument.
> 
> Now when I look at the code generated on MIPS or x86 it looks like there
> is conversion code in both the caller and the callee.

We used to to the same on SPARC 32-bit, see PR target/46208.

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Eric Botcazou