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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa] mips argument passing fixes for o32
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4DFCBB.8010405@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010712122114.B25739@nevyn.them.org>

> 
> If you read the original message at:
>  < http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-07/msg00156.html >
> you'll see the comment in GCC about this behavior.  It says that
> structures of less than word size will be passed in the high end of
> registers, as a hack for compatibility with other MIPS compilers.
> 
> It would be interesting to see how other compilers actually handle
> this, but I don't have access to any other little-endian MIPS
> toolchains.


Yes, but as far as I know, that hack is for big endian and not little 
endian mips.  I need to look at a few of the 60 odd MIPS ABI 
combinations that gdb can debug and check if I've got my story straight :-/

	Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-12 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-06 11:26 Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-06 14:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-12  0:47 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-12 10:35   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-12  1:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-12 10:39   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-12 11:59     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-12 12:21       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-12 12:38         ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
     [not found]       ` <3B58AEBE.1000304@cygnus.com>
     [not found]         ` <20010720152547.A10028@nevyn.them.org>
2001-07-20 16:35           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-20 16:46             ` Elena Zannoni
2001-07-23 20:36               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-14 14:15         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-27  7:48           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-12 17:03 David B Anderson
2001-07-15 14:50 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-15 15:22   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-16  7:46     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-15 20:29 ` David B Anderson
2001-07-16 16:44   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-17  7:49   ` David B Anderson
2001-07-18 13:29     ` Andrew Cagney

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