Re: 8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-03-12T20:06:45Z

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:40:40PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >I don't know if it would break or not.
> >
> >
> >>If that's not the current proposal, could you reword it to help
> >>eliminate the confusion over what you intend?
> >
> >
> >No one is proposing to leave it broken. To pull up an example from
> >earlier in the thread, Andrew broke x86-64 when working on the frame
> >changes. It was an accident, and eventually fixed (by Michal Ludvig, I
> >might add). I apparently broke long long (in registers) in some of my
> >DWARF-2 support patches. I'm working to fix it. I'm only one person
> >and I only have so much time.
>
> For this `long long' case, can a simple local tweak that restores
> existing behavior (while the new code is finished / tested). That way
> the pressure is off you to get this stuff finished quickly instead of
> cleanly.

Except that I don't think such a local tweak is possible in this case.
I could be wrong. Anyone's welcome to try, including the maintainers
of the code in question.

I'm working on the proper solution. Hold your horses, people.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer