From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <3B4DFCBB.8010405@cygnus.com>
References: <20010706112635.A5870@nevyn.them.org> <3B4D5E95.6010407@cygnus.com> <20010712103946.C6359@nevyn.them.org> <3B4DF3A9.8010205@cygnus.com> <20010712122114.B25739@nevyn.them.org>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00307.html

> 
> 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