From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9905121524.AA32004@marc.watson.ibm.com> To: Richard Henderson Cc: law@cygnus.com, Franz Sirl , egcs-patches@egcs.cygnus.com, meissner@cygnus.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix 2 PPC/SYSV varargs problems In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Henderson of "Tue, 11 May 1999 23:48:42 PDT." <19990511234842.A26784@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:24:15 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Richard Henderson writes: Richard> On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:19:53AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote: >> Has this problem been fixed? I see patch from Richard which looks like it >> is related: Richard> No, this is a different, though related, problem. I need to sit Richard> down with the ABI to properly evaluate the patch. PPC SVR4 varargs Richard> seems needlessly complex. That is an understatement! PPC SVR4 varargs is a monstrosity that attempted to pack the registers as tightly as possible and created an endless mess as a result. David [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]