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From: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix PR32843, testsuite bug wrt sign/zero-extension of  return  values
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707261614590.6492@s68.fhfr.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A8AAF0.1090603@gnu.org>

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> 
> > This patch was approved by Andreas Tobler in the PR audit trail and
> > committed to mainline.
> 
> Couldn't it be also a FFI bug?  If the ABI is unclear, I would have expected
> libffi to do the cast itself...

Maybe.  Still it shouldn't matter -- the only valid thing to do with
a signed char is to use it as signed char.  Everything else requires
a proper conversion.

Richard.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-26  9:25 Richard Guenther
2007-07-26 14:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-07-26 14:25   ` Richard Guenther [this message]
2007-07-26 14:28     ` Andrew Haley
2007-07-26 14:48       ` Richard Guenther
2007-07-26 14:54         ` Andrew Haley
2007-07-27 18:28           ` Andrew Haley
2007-07-27 19:28             ` Richard Guenther
2007-07-30 13:58               ` Andrew Haley
2007-08-06 12:46                 ` Andrew Haley
2007-08-07 12:46                   ` Andrew Haley

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