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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Fix infcalls passing a single-field struct with static members
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wodb2n1h.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tv8f5oc1.fsf@oc0404454431.ibm.com> (Andreas Arnez's message of	"Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:49:50 +0200")

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.ibm.com> writes:

Andreas> The infcall-nested-structs test case yields 36 FAILs on s390x because GCC
Andreas> and GDB disagree on how to pass a C++ struct like this as an argument to a
Andreas> function:

Andreas>   struct s { float x; static float y; };

Andreas> For the purpose of argument passing, GCC ignores static fields, while GDB
Andreas> does not.  Thus GCC passes the argument in a floating-point register and
Andreas> GDB passes it via memory.

Andreas> Fix this by explicitly ignoring static fields when detecting single-field
Andreas> structs.

FWIW this looked reasonable to me.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-11 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-11 14:50 Andreas Arnez
2019-10-11 17:46 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2019-10-15 12:23   ` Andreas Arnez

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