Re: mips-tdep.c: FP varargs fixes

Michael Snyder
2007-04-17T20:45:21Z

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:50 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > If you really want to build up some bonus points, you could extend the
> > argument passing testcases to trigger some of these cases :-)
>
> I think gdb.base/funcargs.exp and gdb.base/varargs.exp should already
> cover the interesting combinations and I would suggest that only if any
> new problem pops up, they should get updated to take it into account.
>
> > Yes, this is OK. I'll just trust you on the underlying ABI issues,
> > since you know it better than I do. It all looks sane.
>
> Well, GCC is the definite reference in this case ...

You would think so -- but GCC has been known to get it wrong.
Historically, when gcc differs from the MIPS spec, we go with
the MIPS spec. Even if it means our tests fail.