8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Mar 13 17:05:00 GMT 2003
> mec> The general case of 2-word structures in 5.3 was broken. That is to say,
> mec> my simple test program (attached to the PR) fails with both 5.3 and HEAD.
>
> ac> I386 or general? To the best of my knowledge, structs worked on
> ac> non-i386 architectures.
>
> Native i686-pc-linux-gnu.
Right, so it can't be assumed that `the general case of 2-word structs
in 5.3 was broken'.
> I just tested on native sparc-sun-solaris2.7, but the only compiler
> I have, gcc 3.2.2, does not put the 2-word structure into registers.
Thanks for clarifying this,
Andrew
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