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Re: 8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: brobecker at gnat dot com, drow at mvista dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com,kettenis at chello dot nl, stcarrez at nerim dot fr
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:05:31 -0500
- Subject: Re: 8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine
- References: <200303130418.h2D4IdH22313@duracef.shout.net>
mec> The general case of 2-word structures in 5.3 was broken. That is to say,
mec> my simple test program (attached to the PR) fails with both 5.3 and HEAD.
ac> I386 or general? To the best of my knowledge, structs worked on
ac> non-i386 architectures.
Native i686-pc-linux-gnu.
Right, so it can't be assumed that `the general case of 2-word structs
in 5.3 was broken'.
I just tested on native sparc-sun-solaris2.7, but the only compiler
I have, gcc 3.2.2, does not put the 2-word structure into registers.
Thanks for clarifying this,
Andrew