From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6847 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2007 17:52:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 6839 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2007 17:52:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:52:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 11060 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2007 17:52:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.44.101?) (nathan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 29 Aug 2007 17:52:12 -0000 Message-ID: <46D5B242.4020805@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:28:00 -0000 From: Nathan Sidwell User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Kazu Hirata , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, law@redhat.com, schwab@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch] m68k: Fix binary compatibility problem with -mno-strict-align. (Take 2) References: <200708251536.l7PFa18t031289@sparrowhawk.codesourcery.com> <46D58D5B.6070104@codesourcery.com> <46D5A4E1.7020409@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg02116.txt.bz2 Roman Zippel wrote: > The question is if this is more an ABI bug. Does it really make sense to > return structures of the same size differently based on its contents? Of course it doesn't make sense for the ABI to depend on internal implementation features of the compiler :) Not much we can do about it at this time, though :( > In the end I don't care that much, since Linux already does the sane > thing. ok then. nathan -- Nathan Sidwell :: http://www.codesourcery.com :: CodeSourcery