Re: FASTCALL in egcs was Re: Kernel 2.1.117 OOPS bug report

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 22:54:17 +0200


Hi!

> Not 100%, true. Not really a reason to drop it completely I think, since
> gcc is fixable. It actually is a rather small fix, I just didn't have
> the time and energy anymore to fight with the rest of the gcc-team to
> get this last patch in in a way that was acceptable to them.
> Mind you, it took me two months to produce a compiler and libc that
> worked flawlessly with regparm support up till and including regparm=5.
> It then took me 1.7 years to actually get 99% of all needed patches into
> gcc.

Is it possible to post remaining 1% here (unless it is too big),
preferably relative to egcs ? This should stop other people from doing
this and should show that problem really is fixable.

> Maybe this has changed with egcs, and getting patches in has become easier.
> I didn't have time to try this out yet.

egcs was designed for this...

Pavel

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