Re: [ppc64-linux]: register CONVERT_FROM_FUNC_PTR_ADDR method

Andrew Cagney
2003-06-13T22:54:41Z

> OTOH, there's been a recent trend towards separating this kind of
> thing out for different ABIs. E.g, look at all of push_argument
> variants in mips-tdep.c. At one time, not too long ago, all of
> the push_argument() variants were rolled into one big function.
> (There are some other MIPS related examples that are somewhat
> less extreme.) The reason that this was done is so that fixes
> may be made to the support of a given ABI without having to worry
> about breaking the support for the other ABIs.

The MIPS has a bit of an ABI explosion problem - 4 ABIs X 32x64 X LExBE
X FPU X several things I've forgotten. I don't the PPC has reached that
point yet :-)

Andrew