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Subject: Re: [RFA] arm_extract_return_value, big-endian 
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From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
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fnasser@redhat.com said:
> Humm..., I am having second thoughts about this.  Isn't the problem
> you  are seeing the same problem of not having the values peoperly
> sign-extended?  


No.  In this case we really need to copy the least significant 1 (or 2) 
bytes into the 1 or 2 bytes in the valbuf target.  That means doing a copy 
from the higher addresses.   So in that respect, the patch is correct.

But it breaks the case where the return value is more than one word.

R.