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From: Danny Smith <dannysmith@clear.net.nz>
To: 'Ben Elliston' <bje@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: 'GCC-patches' <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: RFA: Enable DFP/BID on  i?86-pc-mingw32 target
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c7cc10$2ea5a860$644861cb@THOMAS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185040836.9678.2.camel@localhost>

 Ben Elliston
 Sunday, 22 July 2007 6:01 a.m.
> 
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 21:28 +1200, Danny Smith wrote:
> 
> > Is this OK for mainline? 
> 
> This patch doesn't really cover my maintenance area (it's just
> configury), but I wanted to throw a point in: I assume that MinGW
> conforms to the MS ABI?  If so, you're making an ABI extension here
> because of the way that the x86 backend passes decimal float 
> parameters,
> etc.
> 
> Do you intend to just make that an undocumented extension for the time
> being?  What if you wish to later conform to the MS ABI?  You'll break
> your current ABI.

You got me.  I need to do more research.
Thanks for the comments.
Danny

> 
> Cheers, Ben
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-22  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-21 10:15 Danny Smith
2007-07-21 10:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-07-21 19:56 ` Ben Elliston
2007-07-22 10:23   ` Danny Smith [this message]

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