On Dec 12, 2006, at 12:07 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
Dale Johannesen writes:
Dale> It may have been intended to allow the callee to be a K&R-
style or
Dale> varargs function, where all float args get promoted to double.
Dale> In particular, printf was often called without being declared
in
> Dale Johannesen writes:
Dale> It may have been intended to allow the callee to be a K&R-style or
Dale> varargs function, where all float args get promoted to double.
Dale> In particular, printf was often called without being declared in K&R-
Dale> era code. This is one way to make that c
On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:42 AM, David Edelsohn wrote:
Joslwah writes:
Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to
me that
Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are
supposed to
Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examin
> Joslwah writes:
Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that
Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to
Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting
Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C c
> Joslwah writes:
Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that
Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to
Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting
Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C c
Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that
floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to
be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting
stack from a gcc generated C call it appears they are passed as
floats.
Can someone co
