Re: cpu-2.5.64-1

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 07:42:01 EST


William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> said:

[...]

> Another thought I had was wrapping things in structures for both small
> and large, even UP systems so proper typechecking is enforced at all
> times. That would probably need a great deal of arch sweeping to do,
> especially as a number of arches are UP-only (non-SMP case's motive #2).

AFAIU, gcc doesn't put structures in registers (even when they fit).

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